
unknown Baule
Portrait Face Mask (Mblo) with Crest
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

unknown Baule
Portrait Face Mask (Mblo) with Bird
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

unknown Kota
Reliquary Guardian Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Unknown
Flywhisk with Carved Handle
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Unknown Bete
Figure for a diviner
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
The Terminal
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
The Terminal
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Yvette Guilbert
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Chanteur Américain (American Singer)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Aristide Bruant
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Misère (Misery)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Baigneuse debout, en pied (Standing Bather)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Paul Cézanne
Les baigneurs, petite planche (The Bathers, small plate)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Paul Cézanne
Les baigneurs, grande planche (The Bathers, large plate)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Le chapeau épinglé (Pinning the Hat)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
The Street—Design for a Poster
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
L’enfant malade (The Sick Child)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
The Hand of Man
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Attributed to Pablo Picasso
Tête de femme (Woman’s Head)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Sestiere di Dorso Duro, Venice
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Self-Portrait
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Maine Landscape, Autumn No. 13 (recto); Untitled (verso)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Landscape No. 19
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Manolo
Chula
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Paul Signac
Antibes
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Maurice Sterne
Bali
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Painting No. 3
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Woolworth Building (The Dance)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Elie Nadelman
Woman’s Head
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Diego Rivera
Le sucrier et les bougies (Sugar Bowl and Candles)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Movement No. 6, Provincetown
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Movement No. 7, Provincetown
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Vase of Flowers
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Still Life No. 1
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Gino Severini
Femme et enfant (Woman and Child)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Gino Severini
Femme assise dans un square (Woman Sitting in a Square)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
In Vaudeville
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
Tree Forms
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
Cyclamen
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Kenneth Hayes Miller
Woman Seated on a Rug
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Kenneth Hayes Miller
Nude
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Kenneth Hayes Miller
Seated Figure
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Abraham Walkowitz
Drawing No. 19
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Abraham Walkowitz
Watercolor No. 10
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Abraham Walkowitz
Bathers
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Painting No. 69
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Autumn
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Tree
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Duncan
Abstraction—Landscape
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Spring Synchromy
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
Houses
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
New Mexico No. 2
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
New Mexico Landscape
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Bly and Venus
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Apples
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Sheeler
Still Life, Pitcher
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Jules Pascin
Girl Seated
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
Eggplant and Peppers
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Mowing Machine
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Lobster Smack
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Little House, Stonington, Maine
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Maine Series
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Marsden Hartley
Beau Blanc, St. Jeannet
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Bernard Karfiol
Nude and Figure
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Cow
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
Red and Yellow Flowers
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
Oranges and Artichokes
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Pertaining to Stonington Harbor, Maine No. 6
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Charles Demuth
Calla Lilies (Bert Savoy)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Something in Brown, Carmine, and Blue
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Georgia O’Keeffe
Radiator Building—Night, New York
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Wanda Gág
Spring in the Garden
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Moon
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Yellow, Blue, and Violet
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Benjamin Kopman
Portrait—Bear
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Florine Stettheimer
Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Adirondacks, N.Y.
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Red Tree and Sun
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Taos and Vicinity No. 2
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Jules Pascin
Comparaison (Comparison)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Henry Maurer
Girl in Red Dress
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Swinging in the Park (There Were Colored People There)
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Near Taos, New Mexico
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
North from An American Place, New York
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

John Marin
Approach to the Bridge
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Gale
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O’Keeffe
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
From the Front Porch, Lake George
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Poplars Beside Porch, Lake George
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Poplars Beside Porch, Lake George
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

George Grosz
Two Figures
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

George Grosz
Street Scene
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Alfred Stieglitz
Radio City—From the Shelton Hotel
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Arthur Garfield Dove
Storm Clouds
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

Georgia O’Keeffe
Flying Backbone
if ( get_field( "on_display" ) == "No") { print "Not on view"; } ; ?>

unknown Kota
Gabon, Africa
Reliquary Guardian Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)
19th century
Wood with beaten bronze overlay
24 1/2 x 15 x 3 in. (62.2 x 38.1 x 7.6 cm)
Framed: 27 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 5 in. (70.5 x 41.9 x 12.7 cm)
The Kota people of Gabon once created these reliquary figures to guard the remains of their ancestors, which the Kota believed could bestow protection and good fortune on their descendants. The family member’s bones were ensconced in a basket or bark container, into which the base of the guardian figure was thrust so it might form a sort of “body,” with the carved figure as its head.
In 1914, Stieglitz produced a groundbreaking exhibition of African art that presented the works—perhaps for the first time—not as ethnographic objects, but as genuine fine art. Stieglitz recognized that African art had had a profound impact on European and American artists, including Pablo Picasso, Max Weber, and Romare Bearden. They were inspired by the strong geometry of the works, the abstraction and stylization of their forms, and their emotive power.
Following the Armory Show of 1913, European Modernism had bloomed in numerous galleries around New York, and Stieglitz was disgusted by the commercialization of the work. He turned his focus to more experimental art. In December of 1914, Stieglitz would mount an exhibition that featured Cubist works by Picasso and Georges Braque, alongside this Kota reliquary figure and a large wasps’ nest—intending to draw parallels between Modern artworks, “primitive” art, and the patterns and rhythms found in nature.