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Sculptural Element from a Reliquary Ensemble: Head, 19th century (collected before 1914). Gabon. Fang peoples, Betsi group. Wood; H. 9 1/8 x W. 5 3/4 x D. 6 in. (23.2 x 14.61 x 15.24 cm). Curtis Galleries, Inc. Minneapolis MN
This work was originally sourced by Paris-based dealer Joseph Brummer. Robert J. Coady later sold it to an unknown collector.
Face Mask (Kpeliye'e), 19th–early 20th century (before 1913). Côte d'Ivoire, possibly Korhogo region. Senufo peoples. Wood; H. 13 5/16 x W. 7 5/16 x D. 3 9/16 in. (33.8 x 18.5 x 9 cm). The University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia
This work was originally sourced by Paris-based dealer Joseph Brummer and was later acquired by John Quinn.
Mask (mukudj). Gabon. Punu peoples. Wood, pigment; H. 11 1/4 x W. 7 1/16 x D. 5 1/2 in. (28.5 x 18 x 14 cm). Mask: University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia (AF 5366); Photograph: Charles Sheeler, 1919, Gelatin silver print, plate XXIV of the John Quinn Album of African Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Anonymous Lender (L-R 2689.2001)
Robert J. Coady (1876–1921) trained in Europe as a painter before returning to New York and opening the Washington Square Gallery (1914–17) and the Coady Gallery (1917–19). Through the publication of the journal The Soil, he undertook to define the modern American cultural identity as distinct from what he regarded as the omnipresent European model. In 1914, he was the first to exhibit African art at his Washington Square Gallery, preceding by a few months Alfred Stieglitz's seminal exhibition at 291. Joseph Brummer sourced his African works.