Resources
Exhibition HistoryCleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection, July 10 - Sept. 1, 1968 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Oct. 10 - Dec. 1, 1968). Text by William Fagg. Cat. no. 93 (as Female Figure with Children).
Los Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, May 5 - Sept. 22, 1974). Text by Robert Farris Thompson. No cat. no., pp. 68-69, reproduced pl. 92 (as seated female with children).
Los Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, The Arts of Ghana, Oct. 11 - Dec. 11, 1977 (Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center, Feb. 11 - Mar. 26, 1978; Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, May 3 - July 2, 1978).
New York, New York, The African-American Institute, Art Exhibition Program, Oct. 10, 1986.
Montreal, Canada, Galerie Amrad African Arts, Tradition In Transition: Mother and Child In African Sculpture Past and Present, 1989.
Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Archetypes: Five Visual Themes in the Art of Africa (working title), 1989.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Feb. 7 - May 19, 2002 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 2, 2004 - Jan. 2, 2005; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Feb. 12 - June 19, 2005; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Oct. 8, 2005 - Jan. 1, 2006; Nashville, Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Jan. 27 - Apr. 30, 2006 [as African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back]). Text by Pamela McClusky. No cat. no., pp. 37-38, reproduced pl. 12.
Published ReferencesLanger, Cassandra, Mother & Child in Art, New York: Crescent Books, 1992, p. 66, ill.
Galerie Amrad African Arts, Montreal, Canada, Tradition in Transition: Mother and Child in African Sculpture Past and Present, Esther A Dagan, 1989; : p. 79, fig. 80a.
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Archetypes: Five Visual Themes in the Art of Africa, Dr. Herbert M. Cole, Fall, 1989. (catalog of the exhibition.)
Ezra, Kate, Mother and Child in African Sculpture, in African Arts, Vol. 20, No. 4, Aug. 1987, p. 81, illus.
African American Institute, New York, New York, The Art Exhibition Program, postcard (invitation to the opening), October 10, 1986.
Warren Robbins, African Art in American Collections, VOL. II, Smithsonian Press, 1985.
Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, California, The Arts of Ghana, Herbert M. Cole and Doran H. Ross, 1977, p. 126, fig. 272. (catalog of the exhibition.)