Plank Mask (Luruya)

1. Wright Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1983 [originally collected by William Wright in Upper Volta, according to object inventory card of R. Faletti, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Jeffrey Hammer and Deborah Stokes, Chicago, Ill., by 1983 [this and the following according to object inventory card of R. Faletti, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Richard and Barbara Faletti, Chicago, Ill, May 14, 1983; given to Joan Faletti Scottberg; given to the Art Institute, 2000.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago, Ill., Columbia College Art Gallery, Faces of Africa, Jan. 30-Mar. 14, 1987, no cat.
• New York, N.Y., Museum for African Art, Outside Museum Walls: African Art in Private Collections, Feb.- Apr. 10, 1994, no cat.
• Phoenix Art Museum, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection, Dec. 13, 1997-Feb. 8, 1998, cat. 6; traveled to Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, May 14-June 28, 1998; Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sep. 18-Nov. 1, 1998; New York, N.Y., The Museum for African Art, Jan. 29-March 28, 1999; Davenport Museum of Art, April 18–June 13, 1999; New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Sep. 12-Nov. 24, 1999; The Boise Art Museum, Feb. 26 – May 7, 2000.
• Art Institute of Chicago, African Artistry: Gifts from the Faletti Family Collection, Oct. 5–May 18, 2003, Gallery 142, no. cat.

• Christopher D. Roy, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers (Paris: Alain et Francois Chaffin, 1987), pp. 279, fig. 238a (ill.).
• Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection (Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1997), pg. 58, cat. 6 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 8, pp. 40-41 (ill.).
• Clara Granzotto and Ken Sutherland. 2023. "Black, Red and White: Characterization of Painting Materials on a Group of Bwa Masks from Burkina Faso" Applied Sciences 13, no. 22: 12240.
• https://doi.org/10.3390/app132212240