Wazimba

Arts of the Americas

1936

Joseph Kersey
American, 1909–1982

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Joseph Kersey
Title: Wazimba
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1936
Medium: Painted plaster
Dimensions: 25.4 × 17.8 × 13.3 cm (10 × 7 × 5 1/4 in.) (without base)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Clarence S. Wilson Jr., and Helena Chapellin Wilson; through prior acquisitions of Arthur Rubloff
Reference Number: 2001.484

Bernard Goss, “Art Chronicle: Ten Negro Artists On Chicago’s South Side,” Midwest – A Review
(December 1936), p. 17–19 (ill.).

Chicago, Navy Pier, Charter Jubilee, Art Exhibit by Chicago Artists, Aug. 8 – Sept. 6, 1937, cat. no. 907.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 15–May 18, 2003

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