Art Institute of Chicago
Female Face Mask (Gu)
Guro · Early 20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Walter S. (died 1954) and Kate L. Brewster (died 1947), Chicago, Ill., by 1947; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1950.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- St. Paul, Minn., College of St. Catherine, African Art Exhibit, Feb. 14-Mar. 26, 1964.
- Sheboygan, Wis., John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Apr. 2-June 5, 1969.
- Woodlawn Branch Chicago Public Library, Children's Project, Nov. 25-28, 1969.
- Chicago, Ill., Illinois Bell Telephone Co., Substitute Faces, Oct. 2–Oct. 23, 1971, no cat.
- Minneapolis, Minn., African American Cultural Arts Center, Masks of Africa, Feb. 11-Mar. 18, 1974.
Literature
Published references
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), p. 79, fig. 1.
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