Female Caryatid Drum (Pinge)

1. Charles Ratton (died 1986), Paris, by 1957 [see Cannes, Arts D’Afrique et D’Oceanie, 1957; Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, 1963; Goldwater, 1964, no. 165]; sold to Harry A. Franklin (died 1983), Harry A. Franklin Family Collection, Beverly Hills, Calif., early 1960s [personal communication from Valerie Franklin 2/26/2014]; by descent to Valerie Franklin, to 1990 [see Marie-Therese Brincard, 1990, p. 103]; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Apr. 21, 1990, The Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of African Art, lot 47, as A Senufo Memorial Drum, to the Art Institute, 1990.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Cannes, France, Palais Miramar, Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, July 6–Sept. 29, 1957.
• New York, Museum of Primitive Art, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, Feb. 20–Mar. 5, 1963; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, July 12–Aug. 11, 1963, and Baltimore Museum of Art, Sept. 17-Oct. 27, 1963, cat. no. 117 (not ill.).
• Berkeley, Calif., Lowie Museum of Anthropology, African Arts, 1967, no cat.
• Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Sounding Forms: African Musical Instruments, Apr. 26–June 18, 1989, cat. 130, fig. 26.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Senufo Woman and Art: A Caryatid Drum, Apr. 27–Oct. 27, 1991, no cat.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Senufo: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa, Feb. 22–May 31, 2015, cat. 42; traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum, June 28–Sept. 27, 2015; Montpellier, France, Musée Fabre, Nov. 28, 2015–March 6, 2016 (Cleveland and Saint Louis only).

• Robert Goldwater, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa (New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1964), fig. 165 (ill.).
• William S. Rubin, Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984), p. 289 (ill.).
• Marie-Therese Brincard, ed. Sounding Forms: African Musical Instruments. (New York: American Federation of Arts, 1989) p. 103, no. 26.
• Ramona Austin and Anita J. Glaze, Senufo: Women and Art, exh. Cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1991) np.
• Anita J. Glaze, "Call and Response: A Senufo Female Caryatid Drum" in Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies vol. 19, no. 2 (1993), pp. 118–133 (ill.).
• Kathleen E. Bickford and Cherise Smith, "Art of the Western Sudan," in Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago vol. 23, no. 2 (1997), pp. 118–119 (ill.).
• Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Senufo: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art; Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2015), p. 79.
• Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi and Constantine Petridis, “Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa: Exhibition Preview”, in African Arts vol. 48, no. 1 (Spring 2015), p. 14 (ill.).
• Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, "Mapping Senufo: Mapping as a Method to Transcend Colonial Assumptions," in The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History, ed. Kathryn Brown (New York: Routledge, 2020), p. 140-1, figs. 10.3, 10.4.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 15, pp. 54-55 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis, "Making Objects Speak at the Art Institute of Chicago: A New Publication and a Refurbished Arts of Africa Gallery," in Tribal Art magazine (No. 99, Spring 2021), p. 108 (ill.).
• Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi and Constantine Petridis, “Mapping Senufo: Making Visible Debatable Information and Situated Knowledge,” in Perspectives on Data, ed. Emily Lew Fry and Erin Canning (Art Institute of Chicago, 2022), fig. 2.

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