Birds Artist: Jimoh Buraimoh (Nigerian, born 1943)

1970

African Art

Not on view

Medium

Plywood, glass beads, oil paint, and string

Dimensions

framed: 56 1/2 × 25 1/2in. (143.51 × 64.77 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Vivian L. C. Anderson

Accession Number

2004.65.1

Geography

Oshogbo, Osun, Guinea Coast, Nigeria

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Vivian Anderson in an exhibition at Oshogbo [organized by the United States Information Service (USIS)] of the US Embassy,Lagos,1970.
Gift of Vivian L. C. Anderson to Yale University Art Gallery, 2004
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2004," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005): 138–39, ill.
  • M. Visona et al., A History of Art in Africa (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001), 269–70.
  • Henry John Drewal and Jason Mason, Beads, Body, and Soul: Arts and Life in the Yoruba Universe (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 1998), 80–83.
  • Thomas Diggs, St. James Guide to Black Artists (Detroit: St. James Press, 1997), 80–81.
  • Jean Kennedy, New Currents, Ancient Rivers: Contemporary African Artists in a Generation of Change (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), 74–75.
  • Maude Washburn, Contemporary African Arts (Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1974), 57–58, 86, 89.
  • Jimoh Buraimoh, "Painting with Beads," African Arts 5, no. 1 (1971): 16–20.
Object copyright
© Buraimoh
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art

Subject

birds (animals)

Technical metadata and APIs

Linked Art

API response for this object

Linked Art is a Community working together to create a shared Model based on Linked Open Data to describe Art.