Resources
Exhibition HistoryKansas City, Missouri, The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, The Imagination of Primitive Man, 1962.
Cleveland, 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). No cat. no., reproduced pl. 141 (as Belt Mask).
Los Angeles, California, African Art In Motion: Icon and Act, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Apr. 21 - Aug. 30, 1974).
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, African Panoplies: Art for Rulers, Traders, Hunters, and Priests, Apr. 21 - Aug. 14, 1988.
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Benin – Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria, July 8 - Sept. 21, 2008. Reproduced fig. 3, p. 142.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Lessons from the Institute of Empathy, Mar. 31, 2018 - ongoing [on view Mar. 31, 2018 - June 13, 2021].
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Benin Art: Collecting Concerns, Sept. 15, 2021 - ongoing.
Published ReferencesImportant African Sculpture, South American, Haida and Oceanic Art, June 27, 1960, Sotheby's (London, 1960): p. 32, lot no. 120, reproduced frontispiece (color) and folding plate, n.p.
Mathes, Charles. Treasures of American Museums, New York: Mallard Press, 1991; p. 3.
Selected Works, Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1991; p. 35.
Kaplan, Flora Edouwaye S. "Images of the Queen Mother in Benin Court Art." African Arts vol. 26, no. 3 (July 1993): pp. 54-63, 86-88, reproduced p. 56, fig. 1.