The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Untitled B
1997
(British, 1950-)
Overall: 45.3 x 27.4 x 28.1 cm (17 13/16 x 10 13/16 x 11 1/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1998.4
Location: not on view
Description
Odundo’s pots--constructed in a coiling technique that is thousands of years old--comprise fluid forms that are influenced by traditional pottery from Kenya, Nigeria, and the American Southwest. They may resemble containers, but none is meant to be used as such. This thin-walled, gracefully balanced example reflects the torso of a pregnant woman and is the most recent contemporary African work in the museum’s collection. It is juxtaposed here with the oldest object in the African collection, a fragment of a figure in the same medium from Nigeria’s Nok region.- (Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, CA)
- Cleveland Museum of Art, “Painting by 18th-century Italian Master Gaetano Gandolfi among Works Added to CMA Collection,” March 24, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.orgPetridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. Reproduced: fig. 7, p. 20
- Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, December 26, 1997-January 24, 1998.
- {{cite web|title=Untitled B|url=false|author=Magdalene Odundo|year=1997|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1998.4