Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba

In an exquisite sepia portrait, we see printmaker James Lesesne Wells looking intently at the Bakuba ceremonial cup he holds in his hands...

~~In the period 1400 to 1600, Africa comprised a multitude of cultures and linguistic groups with widely varied traditions and practices relating to the decorative arts. The continent was crisscrossed by ancient trade routes across the Sahara desert and through the equatorial regions of Central Africa. The Nile valley connected East...

In the thick of the racially divisive American political climate of the 1960s civil rights era, Jean and Dominique de Menil embarked upon The Image of the Black in Western Art project, a herculean effort to document all of the images of blacks in Western art. They believed that...