Veranda Post with Priest of Shango and Bata Drummer
Artist
Lamidi Olonade Fakeye
Nigerian, Yorùbá, Ila Orangun 1928–2009
Date1984
MediumIroko wood
Dimensions104 1/2 x 10 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. (265.4 x 25.7 x 24.4 cm)
ClassificationsWood
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object number2001.9.2
On View
On viewLamidi Fakeye, video by Christine Black for the Smithsonian Institution Natural History Museum, 1999.
Mary Ellen Soles, "Accent on Africa: Recent Acquisitions of African Art," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2003), briefly discussed 8.
Rebecca Martin Nagy and Dennis P. Weller, entry for Veranda Post with Priest of Shàngó and Bàtá Drummer, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 122, illus. (color) 123.
Kinsey Katchka, "Lamidi Fakeye Sculpture at the North Carolina Museum of Art," in African Arts 44, no. 1 (Spring 2011), discussed and illus. (color) 5.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Accent on Africa: Recent Acquisitions of African Art," April 6-August 10, 2003, brochure no. 2, illus. (b-w).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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