Bust (Looking Upward); A Replica of a Life-Cast Bust of a "Kongo" Man from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
Fred Wilson, American, born 1954
after Caspar Mayer, American, 1871 - 1931
2006
Painted plaster
Overall: 12 3/16 × 13 5/16 × 9 13/16 in. (31 × 33.8 × 25 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
2015.64.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Exhibition History
Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005, p. 22, fig. 13.
Provenance
Found in collection; catalogued, 2015.
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