"1169. Afrique Occidentale - Jeunes Foulahs" (Western Africa - Young Foulah People)
François-Edmond Fortier, French (worked in Dakar, Senegal), 1862 - 1928
early 20th century
Photo offset lithograph poscard
Overall: 5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (14 × 8.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.18.12
Geography
Place Made: Senegal, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in black ink, along left side: Collection Generale de l'A.O.F.-Fortier, Dakar-Reproduction interdite; printed, in black ink, top center: 1169 Afrique Occidentale - Jeunes Foulahs.
Exhibition History
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 187, plate 52.
Provenance
Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.
Catalogue Raisonne
Fortier no. 1169
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