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African Art

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African Art is a 3D virtual gallery on MyGallery3D, a walkable online exhibition of 14 works. Step inside and explore it in your browser: no app, no headset.

About this 3D exhibition14 works

African Art

A 3D virtual museum of African art. Masks, figures and carved wood whose forms detonated inside European painting in the early 1900s, largely without credit.

Every piece in this online exhibition comes from the Art Institute of Chicago's Open Access collection, released under CC0. Each label gives the artist, the date and the medium.

Works in this exhibition

  1. Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun), from African Art

    Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun)

    Yoruba, Late 19th century

    Wood and pigment · Nigeria

    Tillie C. Cohn Endowment Fund

  2. Female Figure with Bowl, from African Art

    Female Figure with Bowl

    Abogunde of Ede, Late 19th century

    Wood, beads, and traces of pigment · Nigeria

    Gift of the Alsdorf Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Antonow; Samuel P. Avery Fund; gift of Herbert Baker and Gwendolyn Miller, the Britt Family Collection, and Gaston T. de Havenon; Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Hokin, Robert Stolper, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Weiss; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Wielgus

  3. Altar Stool, from African Art

    Altar Stool

    Yoruba, Mid, /late 19th century

    Wood and pigment · Nigeria

    Purchased with funds provided by Jamee and Marshall Field, and Mrs. Stanley M. Freehling; Laura T. Magnuson Endowment

  4. Portrait Figure of Metang, the 10th King of Batufam, from African Art

    Portrait Figure of Metang, the 10th King of Batufam

    Bamileke, c. 1912-1914

    Wood and pigment with traces of chalk and camwood · Cameroon

    Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment · Bamileke people on Wikipedia

  5. Tapper (Iroke Ifa), from African Art

    Tapper (Iroke Ifa)

    Yoruba, 17th or 18th century

    Ivory · Nigeria

    Gift of Richard Faletti, the Faletti Family Collection

  6. Esu Dance Staff (Ogo Elegbara), from African Art

    Esu Dance Staff (Ogo Elegbara)

    Yoruba, Mid, late 19th century

    Wood · Nigeria

    Gift of Anne R. Whipple and Jay Whipple in memory of Anne's son, W. Philip McNulty III

  7. Equestrian and Four Figures, from African Art

    Equestrian and Four Figures

    Bankoni, Probably late 12th-15th century

    Terracotta · Mali

    Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment

  8. Mask, from African Art

    Mask

    Ibibio, Unknown

    Wood · Nigeria

    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Wielgus

  9. Female Figure, from African Art

    Female Figure

    Tellem, 11th-19th century

    Wood and sacrificial material · Mali

    Gift of Grace Hokin · Tellem on Wikipedia

  10. Head (Uhunmwun Elao), from African Art

    Head (Uhunmwun Elao)

    Edo, 18th/early 19th century

    Brass · Nigeria

    Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment · Edo on Wikipedia

  11. Lidded Container, from African Art

    Lidded Container

    Northern Nguni, Mid, late 19th century

    Wood · South Africa

    Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund

  12. Headrest (Isicamelo), from African Art

    Headrest (Isicamelo)

    Northern Nguni, 19th century

    Wood · South Africa

    Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson

  13. Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi), from African Art

    Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)

    Vili, Probably early to mid-19th century

    Wood, metal, glass, fabric, fiber, cowrie shells, bone, leather, gourd, and feathers · Republic of the Congo

    Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment · Vili and Vé on Wikipedia

  14. Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola), from African Art

    Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola)

    Luluwa, Mid, late 19th century

    Wood and pigment · Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Wirt D. Walker Fund · Twin sisters of Cain and Abel on Wikipedia