Umqela Nombhaco (Beautification scar) from The Self Portrait Project (2007/2013)
Nomusa Makhubu, South African, born 1984
2014
Archival digital print on 35 gsm Hanhnemule cotton photo museum paper
AP
Image: 20 1/4 × 13 7/16 in. (51.5 × 34.1 cm)
Sheet: 23 7/16 × 16 9/16 in. (59.6 × 42.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
2014.58.4
Geography/Culture
Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Classification
Africa
Photograph
On view
Inscription
Signed, lower left, in graphite: NOMUSA MAKHUBU; inscribed, lower center, in graphite: UMQELA NOMBHACO (2007/2013); inscribed, lower right, in graphite: AP
Course History
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Spring 2019
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum‘s Collection, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Reconstitution, Dorothy and Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-May 31, 2020.
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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