Companion to the Arts of Africa at the Denver Art Museum

This guide offers readers an overview of the permanent collection of art from Africa and the diaspora as well as African American art from the Denver Art Museum. The arts of Africa collection, which was established in the 1920s, totals slightly over seven hundred artworks, mostly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although the collection is substantial in West African art, particularly Yoruba works, it also features masterpieces from the southern, eastern, central, and northern regions of the continent. It focuses on the diverse artistic traditions of Africa and includes rare and exquisite works in sculpture, textiles, brass, painting, printmaking, and jewelry, with quite strong holdings of gold weights and combs. The book offers comparison and analysis of cultures within the continent, the cross-cultural currents across regions, and links from further afield that influenced and were influenced by African art.Contemporary artworks, including painting, mixed-media works, drawi