Patches of History III
Date1993
Maker
El Anatsui
Ghanaian, born 1944
Object number2025.12.1
Provenance[October Gallery, London, 1998]; purchased from gallery by the Appleby family (Kirkland, Washington), 1998 - 2025; gift to the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2025
Exhibition HistoryNew York, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art, September 16 - December 6, 2008.
Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, El Anatsui: Triumphant Scale, March 13 – June 21, 2020.Credit LineGift of the Appleby Family
Dimensions55 1/8 × 27 3/16 × 1 in. (140 × 69 × 2.5 cm)
MediumOyili-oji, opepe, and akparata woods
Egyptian, Behbeit el Hagara
285-246 B.C.
Object number: 47.57
Livingston Farrand
1900
Object number: SC92.84
Benjamin Patterson
1993
Object number: 2019.8
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