Susan Lerer, ASA: Art Appraisals

African Art Resources Online

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Below are links to Websites dedicated to African Art. Other excellent sites can be accessed by browsing our lists of general resource links.

 

Museums

Galleries

Other Resources

American Museum of Natural History, New York
Hosted by the Department of Anthropology, this site contains links to the museum's collections, publications, and special projects for African, Native American, and Asian Arts.

Art Institute of Chicago
Their collections include: African and Amerindian, Asian Arts, textiles, classical arts and more...

Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia
"African Art: Esthetics and Meaning": An electronic exhibition catalog from their African Art Exhibit.

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
Located in Santa Ana, California, Bowers has permanent collections and traveling exhibitions of Native American, pre-Columbian, Asian, African, and Pacific Island arts and artifacts.

The Dallas Museum of Art
Contains major holdings of Ancient American, African, Indonesian, and Contemporary art.

The Denver Museum
Permanent exhibits include an encyclopedic collection of pre-Columbian ceramics as well as exhibits on the art, artifacts, and culture of the North American Indians, the South Pacific region, Alaska, Australia, Botswana, South America, and more...

De Young Museum
The de Young Museum features African art from many areas of sub-Saharan Africa, including a power figure from Zaire and a Makonde helmet mask from Mozambique.

Duke University Museum of Art
Amoung the permanet collections are excellent exhibitions of African and pre-Columbian Art.

Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles
Located on the UCLA campus, the Fowler Museum "celebrates the world's diverse cultures and rich visual arts, especially those of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Native and Latin America.

The Guggenheim Museum, New York
The exhibition, "Africa: The Art of a Contenent" has over 2,000 works of African Art, and a selection of these works are on display at this Website. You can also find information on collecting African art, a behind the scenes look at the exhibition, and more...

The High Museum, Atlanta
Contains permanent collections and special exhibitions of Folk Art, and African Art.

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
This site contains links to the museum's permanent collections on archaeology, Judaica and Jewish ethnography as well as to the departments for the arts of Africa, East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

The Krannert Art Museum, African Art Collection
This site offers a virtual tour of the museum's galleries located at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

The Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Preoria, Illinois
This links to the online catalog of the exhibition, "Cutting the Essence, Shaping the Fire," featuring Yoruba and Akan art in wood and metal.

The Metropoletan Museum of Art, New York
The African collection has superb examples of bronze sculpture from Benin (Nigeria) and wooden sculpture from West and Central Africa.

The Museum for African Art
Located in New York, this museum hosts lectures, workshops, and major exhibitions of the arts of Africa.

The National Museum of African Art, Washington DC
Permanent collections include: Ceramics, Benin Culture, Art of the Personal Object, Images of Power and Identity, as well as many temporary and long term loan exhibitions.

NOK Museum
An Internet based museum, the NOK maintains an electronic collection of works held by other museums and private collectors and serves as a virtual catalog of the artistry and diversity of African arts.

Saint Louis Museum
The Museum's collection of African art is rich in 19th and 20th- century sculpture while fine ancient works add historical depth. Face masks, headdresses, household furniture, portraits, and free-standing figures, ranging from naturalistic to abstract styles, make up the holdings.

The African Art Connection, Nairobi, Minneapolis
Specialized in fine examples of East African arts inluding: Kissi stone carvings, wood carvings, musical instruments, jewelry, baskets, tribal artifacts, and masks.

Charles Jones African Art, North Carolina
Mr. Jones has been a dealer for many years and his inventory reflects his vast experience in the field.

Hamill Gallery of African Art, Boston and Milton, Mass.
A broad selection of authentic and fine African artworks.

Jirah African Arts, Florida
A gallery for fine African Tribal Art featuring online collections, a discussion forum, and more. This site is unique in that the images of the artworks for sale are animated - they turn 360 degrees so the front, side, and back can be viewed. Collections include: Ethnographic Art, Tribal Art, Fine Art, Fetishes, Sculpture, Masks, and more...

Art and Life in Africa Online
Presented by the University of Iowa, this is a Web-based portion of a project dedicated to education about African art and culture.

Ethnographic and Native Arts Books
This site contains links to comprehensive annotated lists of books on the arts of Africa, Eskimo arts, Native arts of the Americas, ceramics of Africa and the Americas, and books about folk arts and folklore. An excellent resource.

H-AfrArts Expressive Cultures of Africa
This site is composed of two parts focusing on the expressive cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. There is a discussion list and a Website cosponsored by Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine and the Arts Council of the African Studies Association.

Introduction to African Art
An onlinelecture series by Dr. Olu Oguibe at the University of South Florida. Subjects include: Art in Antiquity, Nubia, Egypt, Askum, Nok Culture, Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, The Royal Art of Benin, and more...

Mali Page
A list of online resources related to Mali.

OAN - Oceanie Afrique Noire, New York
The largest selection of foreign and US publications of both in-print and out-of-print titles, periodicals, exhibition and auction catalogs for the arts of Africa, Oceania, South East Asia, and the Americas.

SY Morgan Company's Internt Resource Links Page
Sy Morgan Company is committed to providing unique and quality tribal artifacts from African countries and original artwork from around the world. The Internet Resource Links Page contains a library of online African Art resources.

Who = Who in African Art
A directory of over 12,000 authors, scholars, travelers, explorers, field collectors, art collectors, dealers, etc., involved in African art. Check to see if you are listed.


General Resource Links

You can access other excellent Websites that may contain information on African Art by following the links below.

 

Auction Houses

Museums

Galleries

Other Resources

 


For more information, please contact:

Susan Lerer, ASA: Art Appraisals
Tel. (323) 936-0123 Fax (323) 936-3235
E-mail:
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