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Great Mud Mosque, Djenne, Mali

1991

Robert Lyons

American, born 1954

Chromogenic print

frame: 26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.3 cm)

mat: 17 x 23 1/2 in. (43.2 x 59.7 cm)

Gift of the JP and Catherine Heffron Family

2024.14

Provenance: the artist; purchased by Catherine Heffron, 1992; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2024

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Another Africa, 1998 (London, U.K., The Photographer’s Gallery, 1998; Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, 1999).

Published ReferencesAnother Africa: Photographs by Robert Lyons, Essay and Poems by Chinua Achebe. New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1998; p. 123.

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