reverse glass painting depicting students with writing boards, Mor Gueye

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Mor Gueye, reverse glass painting depicting students with writing boards
Mor Gueye, reverse glass painting depicting students with writing boards
Mor Gueye
reverse glass painting depicting students with writing boards
1995
Mor Gueye
born circa 1925
reverse glass painting depicting students with writing boards, 1995
Where object was made: Dakar, Senegal
Material/technique: reverse painting on glass
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 16.5 x 24 x 1 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 6 1/2 x 9 7/16 x 0 3/8 in
Credit line: Gift of Professor Beverly Mack
Accession number: 2011.0159
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Roots and Journeys: Encountering Global Arts and Cultures," Jun-2013, Cassandra Mesick For the better part of his long life, Mor Gueye has been creating reverse paintings on glass at his studio in Dakar. Many of these paintings depict events from the life of Sheikh Amadou Bamba-an iconic Muslim leader and founder of the Muridiyya Sufi Brotherhood. Gueye, a devout member of the Baye Fall (a Senegalese sect of Muridiyya), recounts that Amadou Bamba‘s appearance in his dreams first inspired him to paint; he is now one of Senegal’s most celebrated and widely exhibited artists.