Visions from the forests: the art of Liberia and Sierra Leone
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, April 9-August 17, 2014; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, September 20, 2014-February 8, 2015; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, March-May 2015; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, July-October 2015--Colophon.
"The exhibition features some 70 artworks from the collection of William Siegmann (1943-2011) that survey the traditional arts of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Siegmann, a former curator of African art at the Brooklyn Museum, lived and worked in Liberia from 1965 to 1987. While there, he began collecting art from Liberia and Sierra Leone. Siegmann's collection, particularly rich in masks, provides an overview of the region's traditional art forms, including numerous objects used in men's and women's initiation associations, jewelry and prestige objects of cast brass and horn, small stone figures dating from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and woven and dyed textiles."--Smithsonian Institution website, viewed May 8, 2014.
Seattle: Distributed by the University of Washington Press; [2014]
Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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