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., pp. 18-19, reproduced pl. 20 (as "bieri" figure).
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Praise Poems: The Katherine White Collection, July 29 - Sept. 29, 1984 (Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 31, 1984 - Feb. 25, 1985; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Apr. 6 - May 19, 1985; Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, Sept. 7 - Nov. 25, 1985; Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Mar. 8 - Apr. 20, 1986). Text by Pamela McClusky. Cat. no. 13, pp. 34-35, reproduced (as Reliquary figure (eyima)).
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. 38-39, reproduced pl. 14.
Published ReferencesBaldwin, James, Romare Bearden, Ekpo Eyo, Nancy Graves, Ivan Karp, Lela Kouakou, Iba N'Diaye, David Rockerfeller, William Rubin, Robert Farris Thompson, Fang Reliquary Guardian, in Perspectives: Angles on African Art, The Center for African Art: New York and Harry N. Abrams Inc.
Christie's Auction Catalogue: African Art from the Collection of the late Josef Mueller of Solothurn, Switzerland, London, June 13, 1978, p. 48-49, illus no. 135.
Dieterlen, Germaine, Textes sacres d'Afrique Noire, in Collection Unesco D'oeuvres Representatives Serie africaine, p. 238-239.
Fernandez, James, The Exposition and Imposition of Order: Artistic Expression in Fang Culture, in The Traditional Artist in African Soieties, ed. by W. d'Azevedo, Bloomington, 1973, p. 197-206.
Fernandez, James W., Principles of Opposition and Vitality in Fang Aesthetics, in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticisms, Vol. 25 No. 1 (1996), p. 55-64.
Lamp, Frederick, African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, in African Arts, Vol. 17 No. 1 (Nov 1983), p. 32-46+88.
Perrois, Louis, La statuaire des Fang du Gabon, in Arts d'Afrique Noire, 7.15, (Autumn 1973), p. 22-39.
ed. Ross, Doran H., Standing Male (Desexed) Figure, probably Fang People; Okak or Ntumu Subgroup with stong Mabea influence; Equatorial Guinea, in Visions of Africa: The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Art at UCLA, p. 100-101+105.
Sotheby's Tribal Art, Fang Male Reliquary Guardian Figure, November 15, 1988, illus no. 71.
Sotheby's: Tribal Art, A Fang Male Reliquary Guardian Figure, July 2, 1990, illus no. 122.