Once a vibrant artistic expression, relief printing involved carving designs onto wooden or linoleum blocks, inking them, and ...
25 x 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (63.5 x 24.1 x 14 cm.) 17 1/2 in. high 31 in. high ...
Making something out of nothing is what African woodcarver Cephas Agbemenu does as he turns abandoned logs into beautiful works of art. "I focus on carving because it is an imitation of nature," ...
Before he became a revered wood carver and designer in the art of Yoruba wood carving, Olowe was first a slave and servant. His mother was a war captive when she gave birth to him in Efon-Alaaye, a ...
PHILADELPHIA — The astute art collector Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951) treasured African sculpture as well as Picasso, Modigliani, and Matisse. When his radical collection was officially dedicated ...