Goldweight Depicting a Man with a Pipe and a Powder Keg by Asante
Art Institute of Chicago

Goldweight Depicting a Man with a Pipe and a Powder Keg

Asante · 18th/early 20th century

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pinsof (both d. 2003), Wilmette, Ill., by 1979; given to the Art Institute, 1979.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Knoxville, Tenn., Frank H. McClung Museum, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, Jan. 10–May 18, 2003.

Literature

Published references

  • Nii Otokunor Quarcoopome, "Art of the Akan,” African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, 2 (1997), p. 144, fig. 20.
  • William J. Dewey, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, exh. cat. (Knoxville, Tenn.: Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, 2003), p. 24, pl. 17; p. 58.

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