Mask

Photo: Susan Cole

Mask

Wood, pigment, and fiber
26 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (67.3 x 19 x 14.6 cm)
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.539
Provenance: [Le Véel, Paris, France]; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1971; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
Photo: Susan Cole
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryLos 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., p. 136, reproduced fig. G-1.

Bellingham, Washington, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Masks: Facing the World, July 30 - Nov. 8, 1987.

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