"1087. Afrique Occidentale - Jeunne Femmes Arabes" (Western Africa - Young Arab Women)
François-Edmond Fortier, French (worked in Dakar, Senegal), 1862 - 1928
about 1900-1906
Photo offset lithograph postcard
Fortier 1087
Overall: 3 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (8.9 × 13.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.18.6
Geography
Place Made: Senegal, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in black ink, top center: 1087. - Afrique Occidentale. - Jeunne Femmes Arabes; printed, in black ink, bottom right: Collection Generale Fortier, Dakar Reproduction interdite; stamped, on reverse, in blue ink: Cartes Postales documentaires 19_ / Collection / Louis / HESSENBRUCH No_; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, top center: Aquarellee / Watercolored
Course History
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
WGST 41.4, Transnational Muslim Feminisms, Zahra. Ayubi, Fall 2014
WGST 65.7, Queer Popular Culture, Eng-Beng Lim, Summer 2015
REL 28.04, MES 19.05, WGSS 43.06, Gender in Islam, Zahra Ayubi, Spring 2020
GOVT 86.43/MES 12.14, Intellectual History of Racism, Michelle Clarke and Jonathan Smolin, Spring 2022
First Year Student Enrichment Program – Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Colleen Lannon, Summer 2023
Religion 28.04, Middle Eastern Studies 19.05, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies 43.06, Gender in Islam, Zahra Ayubi, Summer 2023
First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Mokhtar Bouba, Summer 2023
Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023
Writing 2.05, Why Write, Anyway?, Erkki Mackey, Fall 2023
Writing 5.24, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023
Writing 5.25, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023
Anthropology 31.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 36.01, Gender in Cross Cultural Perspectives, Sabrina Billings, Fall 2023
Anthropology 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Fall 2023
Art History 31.01, Arts of South Asia, Seher Agarwala, Fall 2023
Creative Writing 10.02, Writing and Reading Fiction, Katherine Crouch, Fall 2023
Geography 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2023
Humanities 2.01, The Modern Labyrinth, Dennis Washburn, Paul Carranza, Ainsley Morse, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2024
Writing 5.06, Image and Text, Becky Clark, Winter 2024
Writing 5.07, Image and Text, Becky Clark, Winter 2024
Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024
College Course 21.01, What's In Your Shoebox?, Francine A'Ness and Mokhtar Bouba, Spring 2024
College Course 21.01, What's In Your Shoebox?, Francine A'Ness and Mokhtar Bouba, Spring 2024
Exhibition Tour: Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art, Summer 2023
Religion 28.04, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 43.06, Middle Eastern Studies 19.05, Gender in Islam, Zahra Ayubi, Summer 2024
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 89, Goddesses, Models, and Prostitutes: An Exploration of the Reclining Female Nude, Olivia Field, Class of 2015, Kathryn Conroy Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 18-August 30, 2015.
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.
Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, and Northeast Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 22, 2023–May 25, 2024.
Publication History
Olivia Field, A Space for Dialogue 89, Goddesses, Models, and Prostitutes: An Exploration of the Reclining Female Nude, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2015, checklist no. 3.
Provenance
Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.
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