Shrine Figure (a-Tshol, Elëk, or ma-Tshol)

1. John J. Klejman (died 1995), Klejman Gallery, New York, by 1957 [this and the following information according to Affinities of Form 1996, p. 215, listed as ex-collection Wielgus]; sold to Raymond Wielgus (died 2010) and Laura Wielgus (died 2003), from 1957. Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago and New York, by 1962; sold to the Art Institute, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Portland Museum of Art, Tribal Art of West Africa, Sept. 16–Oct. 31, 1971, cat. 11.

• Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art from Chicago Collections (Art Institute of Chicago, 1960), pp. 104 (ill.) [published as "Lent anonomously"]
• Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 51.
• Diane M. Pelrine. Affinities of Form: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection, listed as ex-collection, p. 215.
• Marie Yvonne Curis and Ramon Sarro, “The Nimba Headdress: Art, Ritual, and History of the Baga and Nalu Peoples of Guinea,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, 2 (1997), pp. 124-5, cat. no. 14 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 20, pp. 72-73 (ill.).

Female Headdress (Nimba, D'mba, or Yamban)

Art Institute of Chicago

Helmet Mask (Banda or Kumbaduba)

Art Institute of Chicago

Snake Headdress (a-Mantsho-ña-Tshol or Inap)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

Art Institute of Chicago

Martin Vanden Bogaert Desjardins

Art Institute of Chicago

Remembrance of Italy

Art Institute of Chicago

Priest and Boy

Art Institute of Chicago

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Art Institute of Chicago

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