Veranda Post (Òpó Ògògá)

1. Commissioned by Onijagbo Obasoro Alowolodu, Ogoga (King) of Ikere (r. 1890-1928), Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, c. 1910-1914 [artist Olowe of Ise in residence in Ikere from 1910 to 1914 according to Drewal and Pemberton, and Abiodun, 1989, p. 205, note 237]; by descent to subsequent rulers, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria and later Federal Republic of Nigeria, until at least 1964 [in situ photographs of the Palace of Ikere from 1937 by Eva Meyerowitz, 1958/59 by William Fagg, and 1964 by J. Picton, copies in curatorial file; Walker 1998, pp. 22-23]. until 1964; Marvin Chasin, London [email communication Nov. 16, 2020, copy in curatorial object file]; Gaston T. de Havenon (died 1993), New York, N.Y., about 1970-84 [Walker 1998, p. 66]; [on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 5, 1981–July 1984 recorded in justification and personal communication Nov. 14, 2011, documented in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Center for African Art, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, Sept. 21, 1989–Jan. 7, 1990, cat. 241; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 10–Apr. 1, 1990, Washington D.C., National Museum of African Art, May 8–Aug. 26, 1990, Cleveland Museum of Art, Sept. 26–Dec. 9, 1990, New Orleans Museum of Art, Jan. 11–Mar. 24, 1991, and Atlanta, High Museum, Apr. 23–June 16, 1991, Phoenix Art Museum, Sept. 4-Oct. 6.
• Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Anonymous Has a Name: Olowe of Ise, A Yoruba Court Artist, Mar. 11–Sept. 1, 1998, no cat.
• 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. 7.

• Eva L. R Meyerowitz, “Wood-carving in Yoruba Country Today,” Africa 14, no. 2 (April 1943), pp. 66-70 (in-situ).
• William Fagg and Margaret Plass, African Sculpture, (Studio Vista, a Dutton Vista Paperback, 1964), p. 91 (in-situ).
• Esther Pasztory, "Hieratic Composition of West African Art," The Art Bulletin, 52 (1970), pp. 209-306, pl. 4 (in-situ).
• Jacqueline DeLange, The Art and Peoples of Black Africa (E.P. Dutton & Co., 1974), pl. 76.
• William Fagg and John Pemberton, Yoruba Sculpture of West Africa (Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), p. 160 (in-situ).
• J.C. Moughtin, ed., The Work of Z.R. Dmochowski: Nigerian Traditional Architecture, exh. cat. (Ethnographica, 1988), p. 37 (in-situ).
• John Pemberton III, "Art and Rituals for Yoruba Sacred Kings," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 15, 2 (1989), pp. 96–111 (ill.).
• Z.R. Dmochowski, An Introduction to Nigerian Traditional Architecture, vol. II, South-West and Central Nigeria (Ethnographica and National Commission of Museums and Monuments Nigeria, 1990), pl. 2.45 (ill.).
• Roslyn Adele Walker, "The Ikere Palace: Veranda Posts by Olowe of Ise," African Arts 24, 1 (1991), p. 77.
• Antonio Acosta Mallo and Pilar Llull Martinez de Boya, Arte del Africa Negra (Tribal Investigation and Preservation of African Art Center, 1992), p. 141 (ill.).
• John Picton, "West Africa and the Guinea Coast," in Tom Phillips, ed., Africa: The Art of a Continent (Münich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel, 1995), pp. 339-340 (ill.).
• Herbert M. Cole, "Africa in the Dictionary of Art," African Arts (Winter 1997), p. 63 (ill.).

Eight-Platform Bridge (Yatsuhashi), from the "Tale of Ise (Ise Monogatari)"

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Parody of Kawachi-goe from "Tales of Ise"

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Parody of Kawachi-goe from "Tales of Ise"

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"Chi": Musashi Plain, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

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"Ni": Akutagawa, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

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"Ko," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

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"Ki," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

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The Elopement (parody of Akutagawa episode from "Tales of Ise")

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