Imvunulo (Traditional Dress) from The Self Portrait Project (2007/2013)

Nomusa Makhubu, South African, born 1984

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2014

Archival digital print on 35 gsm Hanhnemule cotton photo museum paper

AP

Image: 19 15/16 × 13 7/16 in. (50.6 × 34.1 cm)

Sheet: 23 3/8 × 16 1/2 in. (59.4 × 41.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

2014.58.12

Geography

Place Made: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

Period

21st century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Africa

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower left, in graphite: NOMUSA MAKHUBU; inscribed, lower center, in graphite: IMVUNULO (2013); inscribed, lower right, in graphite: AP

Course History

SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015

Art History 20.04, Faith and Empire, Beth Mattison, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

Inventory: New Works and Conversations around African Art, Friends Gallery/Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 16-March 13, 2016.

Provenance

Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa; sold to present collection, 2014.

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