The Audain Art Museum
The Audain Art Museum, which houses an exceptional collection of historical Northwest Coast art largely acquired through Donald Ellis Gallery, will open in Whistler, BC, in March 2016
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Forehead Mask
Tlingit
Southeast Alaska
Southeast Alaska
ca. 1780–1820
wood, paint, abalone shell, hide
length: 12"
Inventory # N3886
Sold
acquired by The Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC
Provenance
Julius Carlebach, New York, NY, 1960
The Allen and Sally Wardwell Collection, New York, NY
Exhibited
Art Institute of Chicago, “Yakutat South: Indian Art of the Northwest Coast”, March 13 to April 26, 1964
Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, “Art of the Northwest Coast”, March 26 to October 17, 1965
Baruch College, New York, “The Indian Space Painters”, 1991
Published
Yakutat South: Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1964, pg. 32, pl. 55
Art of the Northwest Coast, Harner, Berkeley, Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 1965
The Indian Space Painters, New York, Baruch College, 1991, pg. 30
Tangible Visions, Wardwell, New York, Monacelli Press, 1996, pg. 104, pl. 81
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pl. 3
Related Example
For a mask likely by the same artist see: Wardwell, Allen. Tangible Visions: Northwest Coast Indian Shamanism and its Art. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1996, pg. 129, no. 120
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