Race, Gender, and the "Decorative" in 20th-Century African Art: Reimagining Boundaries
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Race, Gender, and the "Decorative" in 20th-Century African Art: Reimagining Boundaries
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
Jessica Gerschultz, curator
Jessica Gerschultz, curator
Gallery 404, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This exhibition explored the U.S. institutional frameworks for African art in museums throughout the 20th century using a historiographic approach that critiques history, historians, and historical trends. This exhibition accompanied Civic Leader and Art Collector: Sallie Casey Thayer and an Art Museum for KU, the major exhibition for fall 2017 that displayed hundreds of objects from Thayer’s original gift that established the Spencer Museum and our collection, because Thayer’s original gift largely excluded African art from its otherwise expansive geographic and cultural scope.
Exhibition images
Works of art
unrecorded Mamluk artist
1250–1517
unrecorded Chokwe artist
late 1800s–1908
unrecorded Amhara artist
late 1800s–1945
unrecorded Amhara artist
late 1800s–1945
unrecorded Amhara or Tigray artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Asante artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Asante artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Asante artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Asante artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Asante artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Asante artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Asante artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Asante artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Asante artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Oyo artist
late 1950s
unrecorded Ndebele artist
late 1900s–1979
unrecorded Ndebele artist
late 1900s–1982
unrecorded Ndebele artist
late 1900s–1982
unrecorded Kuba artist
late 1800s–1975
unrecorded Maasai artist
late 1800s–1968
late 1800s–1929
late 1800s–1967
late 1800s–1967
late 1800s–1967
unrecorded Zulu artist
1925–1990
unrecorded Zulu artist
1925–1990
unrecorded Ganda artist
1925–1990
unrecorded Maasai artist
1925–1990
unrecorded Tuareg artist
1925–1990
unrecorded Tuareg artist
1925–1990
unrecorded Tuareg artist
1925–1990
unrecorded Akan artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist
1980
unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist
1980
1980
unrecorded Akan artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Akan artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Akan artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
unrecorded Akan artist
late 1800s–early 1900s
circa 1980s
unrecorded Nupe artist
circa 1980
unrecorded Hausa or Nupe artist
circa 1980
unrecorded Khoisan artist
circa 1980
unrecorded Batwa artist
1994
1800s
circa 1960
1997
1999
Pierre Boucherle (1894–1988)
2001
Events
February 18, 2018
Talk
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Larry and Barbara Marshall Family Balcony, 404
March 8, 2018
Talk
10:00–11:00AM
Spencer Museum of Art, Larry and Barbara Marshall Family Balcony, 404
March 10, 2018
Activity
1:00–4:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Larry and Barbara Marshall Family Balcony, 404
April 13, 2018
Talk
2:00–3:00PM
Spencer Museum of Art, Larry and Barbara Marshall Family Balcony, 404