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Caryatid stool

Caryatid stool

Hemba/Luba

Wood
18 x 12 5/16 in. (45.7 x 31.3 cm)
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.877
Provenance: Collection of Loed Van Bussel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; sold to Katherine White (1929-1980), Seattle, Washington, 1975; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySan Francisco, California, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Selections from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, 1978-1983.

Seattle Art Museum, Volunteer Park, The Table and Chair: A Study in Form and Style, May 28 - Aug. 9, 1987.

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).
Published ReferencesSmith, Sara W., The Permanent Africa Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; opened December 5, 1991, review, in African Arts, Vol. 25, no. 4, 100th Issue (October 1992), pp. 90-91

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