Lines That Link Humanity
Artist
El Anatsui
Ghanaian, born 1944, Anyanko, active in Nsukka, Nigeria
Date2008
Associated withAfrica
MediumDiscarded aluminum and copper wire
Dimensionsheight and width: 18ft. × 25 ft. (216 1/16 × 300 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Barbara and Sam Wells
Object number2009.3
On View
On view[1] Commissioned with funds provided by Barbara and Sam Wells
Published ReferencesKinsey Katchka, entry for Lines that Link Humanity, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 11, 17-18, 566, illus. (color) 11, 567.
Kinsey Katchka, "Created Especially for the NCMA: El Anatsui's Lines that Link Humanity," in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 2010), 6-11. Illus. (color) 6-7, details in situ (color) 8, 10-11.
Metta Sám, “The lines that link humanity are" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 32.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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