Untitled (Figure Cutting Down Tree)
Twins Seven Seven, Nigerian, 1944 - 2011
1970s
Acrylic and felt-tipped pen on plywood
Overall: 24 × 48 3/16 in. (61 × 122.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Edward B. Marks, President, Class of 1932, in memory of Tom Marks, Class of 1965
D.2003.21.1
Geography
Place Made: Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Africa
Drawing
Not on view
Course History
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
Exhibition History
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 7-November 28, 2004.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 30.
Provenance
Purchased by Edward B. Marks (1911-2005, Class of 1932) in Nigeria (during his residency) after the Biafran war 1967-1970, Mill Valley, California; given to present collection, 2003.
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