Untitled (Figure Cutting Down Tree)

Twins Seven Seven, Nigerian, 1944 - 2011

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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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