Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Benin bronze head Nigeria
1935
Africa; Nigeria
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Photograph by Walker Evans in 1935 of a Benin bronze head displayed in an exhibit of the same year entitled 'African Negro Art' in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Original catalog caption reads, "Head, Benin, British Nigeria, Bronze, 7 3/4 inches high (photograph over actual size). Collection Captain A.W.F. Fuller, London.".
- Collection
- Walker Evans photographs
- Catalog date
- 1935
- Recorded places
- Africa; Nigeria
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot; Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
- Recorded subjects
- Art objects
- Format and extent
- 1 Photographic print (b&w, 8 x 10 in.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1985-010, Item EEPA 1985-100184
Collection: Walker Evans photographs