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- Title
African Folk Art from the Stanley Collection.
- Authors
Roy, Christopher D.
- Abstract
This article provides information on a collection of African folk art collected by Max and Betty Stanley in 1960. From 1973 to 1978, the couple purchased about 350 objects from all areas of Africa. The Stanleys offered the collection to the University of Iowa, on the condition that it become the center for a program of African art studies. In 1979 the collection was exhibited at Iowa and a catalog was published. African art scholars attended the opening and a conference at The School of Art and Art History. Some of the collections include a chokwe wood sculpture, a songye figure in wood and brass, a kongo nail figure in wood, pigment, glass and wire, a luba wood sculpture and a wood-carved mask. Most of the collection has been on display in the Museum of Art since 1979 and students have benefited from the opportunity to study these objects as subjects for research papers.
- Subjects
AFRICAN art objects; ART museums; STANLEY, Max; STANLEY, Betty; CHOKWE wood sculpture; SONGYE sculpture; LUBA wood sculpture; KONGO sculpture
- Publication
Society, 1995, Vol 33, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02700359