Art Institute of Chicago

Pair of Headdresses (Tyi Wara Kunw)

Bamana · Mid–19th to early 20th century

Provenance

Ownership history

Unknown dealer, Paris [personal communication from Hélène (ex-Kamer) Leloup, Oct. 1982, documented in curatorial file]; sold to Henri Kamer (died 1992) and Hélène (ex-Kamer) Leloup, Henri A. Kamer Gallery [Kamer Inc.], Paris, France, by 1965; sold to the Art Institute, 1965.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, African Art in the Cycle of Life, June 2, 1987–January 10, 1988.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Genesis: Origins in African Sculpture, November 19, 2002–April 12, 2003, cat. pp. 12–24, 79–82.
Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, "The Language of Beauty in African Art", April 3-July 31, 2022; Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 20, 2022 - Feb. 27, 2023, cat. no. 65.

Literature

Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1964–1965 (1965), p. 41.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Quarterly of the Art Institute of Chicago 28 (1965), p. 111, pl. 3 (ill.).
Allen Wardwell, New Aquisitions of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, African Arts, vol. IV, no. 1 (Autumn 1970), pg 1 and cover.
Duane Preble and Sarah Preble, Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts, third ed. (Prentice Hall, 1985), p. 265, fig. 303 (ill.).
Richard F. Townsend, African Sculpture: The Art Institute of Chicago [In-Gallery Guide] (Art Institute of Chicago, 1985).
Roy Seiber and Roslyn Adele Walker, African Art in the Cycle of Life, exh. cat. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987), object 22.
Thomas Buser, Experiencing Art Around Us (West Publishing, 1995), pg. 37 (ill.).
Kathleen E. Bickford and Cherise Smith, "Art of the Western Sudan," African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, 2 (1997), pg. 113, pl. 6 (ill.).
Kathleen Bickford Berzock, "African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," African Arts Magazine 32, 4 (Winter 1999), pp. cover, 2, 19 (ill.).
Alisa LaGamma, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), pp. 12–24, 79–82.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide, revised ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), p. 21 (ill.).
Thomas Buser, Experiencing Art Around Us (Wadsworth Publishing, 2006).

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