Goldweight Depicting a Monkey
Akan-speaking peoples · 18th/early 20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Raymond and Laura Wielgus, Chicago, Ill., by 1977; given to the Art Institute, 1977.
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.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Critical Fabulation, Oct. 10, 2025-Jan. 4, 2026, no cat.
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.
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