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: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
2014.58.4
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: UMQELA NOMBHACO (2007/2013); 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
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Spring 2019
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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