Painting Item Number: 3595/55 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Vertical painting depicting a stylized anthropomorphic figure. The figure's face is green and surrounded by concentric grey, orange, and brown u-shaped lines, which are surrounded by a curved green zigzagging line. The figure’s body is primarily brown and decorated with orange, green, brown, grey, and white dots, lines, and shapes. To the right of the figure's head are two oval shapes (one green and one orange) that have lines connecting them to the midsection of the figure's body. The middle and lower sections of the body have oblong green shapes (outlined in orange) that are filled with green dots. These shapes' green and orange outlines extend downwards toward the edge to form two large orange circles with smaller green circles within. The cloth is stretched on a wooden stretcher and held in place by nails. Paint from the front has bled through to the back. There is an ink label on the lower right side of the back of the stretcher.
Narrative
Collected by Fred Haack in South Sudan. Haack said he spent "a great deal of time in Juba" from 1979-c. 1982, where he acquired 80 Dinka paintings. Haack wrote that the paintings were made by "a young Dinka tribesman who went to a missionary school for a few months and, with no training, put paint to canvas." The artist's name in unknown. Haack gave 70 of the paintings to the Museum of Civilization in 1994. In 1996 he gave the last 10 to the Kelowna Museum (now Okanagan Heritage Museum).
Item History
- Made
- Collected between 1979 and 1982
- Owned by Fred E. Haack before 1996
- Owned by Okanagan Heritage Museum before September 14, 2022
- Received from Okanagan Heritage Museum (Transferring institution) on September 14, 2022
What
- Name
- Painting
- Identification Number
- 3595/55
- Type of Item
- painting
- Overall
- height 74.4 cm, width 45.0 cm, depth 1.6 cm
Who
- Culture
- Dinka
- Previous Owner
- Fred E. Haack and Okanagan Heritage Museum
- Received from
- Okanagan Heritage Museum (Transferring institution)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- “South Sudan” ?
When
- Collection Date
- between 1979 and 1982
- Ownership Date
- before 1996 and before September 14, 2022
- Acquisition Date
- on September 14, 2022
Other
- Item Classes
- paintings
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 3595/0055