Female Figure with Bowl (mboko)
Artist
Luba artist
Dateearly–mid 20th century
MediumWood
Dimensions17 7/8 x 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (45.4 x 21.6 x 17.1 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes
Object numberGL.72.19.38
On View
On viewEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 75.
Bezio Bassani and Malcolm D. McLeod, Jacob Epstein: Collector (Milan: Associazione Poro, 1989), 120, illus. (b-w).
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus.(b-w) 53.
Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for Bowl Bearer, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 61, illus. (color).
Obsidian III 4, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2002), illus. (b-w) 37.Exhibition HistoryGreensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, September 9-30, 1973.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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