African Art Collection at The Baltimore Museum of Arts BMA
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 Stool.
c.1900. Lozi, Zambia. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Art Acquisition Fund, BMA
2005.159
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD
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Arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands PH:
443-573-1745 Karen Milbourne, BMA Associate Curator of African Art
The BMA has one of the earliest and most important collections
of African art in the United States. A major gift from the collection of Janet
and Alan Wurtzburger in 1954 marked the beginning of a permanent display of
African art at the BMA and assured a significant place for African art within
the Museum’s growing collection. Now featuring more than 2,000 objects that
span from ancient Egypt to contemporary Zimbabwe, the collection includes works
from Bamana, Yoruba, Kuba, Ndebele, and many other cultures.
The works of art are as diverse in form as they are in
function and include headdresses, masks, figures, royal staffs, textiles,
jewelry, ceremonial weapons, and pottery. Many pieces are distinguished by their
use in royal courts, performances, and religious contexts, and several are
internationally known as the best of their type, such as D’mba, an
unparalleled Baga female dance headdress from Guinea.
Highlights of the collection include an early 20th-century
portrait of a woman by acclaimed Liberian carvers Zlan and Sonzanlwon and
several figures by the legendary brasscaster Ldamie. Recent acquisitions include
a Lozi throne (c.1900) most likely carved in the court of Lozi King Lewanika of
western Zambia, a 20th-century Hausa Koranic prayer board, and Theo Eshetu’s
contemporary light-based video work Meditation - Light (2006).
A few weeks ago, I found myself at a
most intriguing runway show... The models on view at the Baltimore
Museum of Art were showing off their bodyware: tattoos as diverse as the
men and women who wore them. Skulls attached to wings, hearts encased in a
pot of gold, names of deceased loved ones etched across shoulder blades and
crosses engraved on necks.
 BMA
exhibition explores roles of pattern in African Art
The final installment of a three-part series, Meditations on African Art is
now on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The series is framed around
general artistic conventions, rather than geography or chronology.
Meditations on African Art:
Pattern
March 12 – August 17, 2008
A Masai Shield with african art pattern. Tanzania. Shield. Early-mid 20th
century. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Robert and Jane Hellawell,
Chestertown, Maryland, BMA 1998.476
THE BMA PRESENTS BALTIMORE TATTOO INK: PATTERNS ON BODIES
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