The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  1900s

  Commissioned from the Igbesanmwan, Benin Kingdom

  no earlier than 1961

  (Robert L. Stolper gallery, New York City)

  by at least 1962

  Katherine C. White [1929-1980], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

  1973–

  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 • Photo negative in curatorial file with reference date 1/1/1962 • Published in African Tribal Images (CMA 1968) as cat. No. 150

  2 Acquired as gift at December 28, 1973 meeting Acquisition publicized in CMA Bulletin Feb 1974 “Year in Review 1973” (cat. #13, repr. p. 71)
• Citations
  "The Year in Review for 1968." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31-78. Reproduced: p. 71, cat. 13; mentioned: p. 73, cat. 13 www.jstor.org

  Fagg, William. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. Reproduced: cat. 150

  Broudy, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Youngblood. Icon and Symbol : The Cult of the Ancestor in African Art. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, 1975

  Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. “Art from the Benin Kingdom.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 34-35. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 34-35.

  Digital Benin, Markk Museum Am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Kunste der Welt, (Last Updated: 2021-02-13) ID 147489 digitalbenin.org
• Exhibition History
  Icon and symbol : The cult of the ancestor in African art. Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (May 30–July 20, 1975)

  Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

  African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10 – September 1, 1968)
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