African art: Collections
Collections
In the United States, fine collections of African art can be found in the National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution); the Michael C. Rockefeller wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Field Museum and the Natural History Museum, Chicago; the Peabody Museum, Harvard; the Univ. Museum at the Univ. of Pennsylvania; and the Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Collections
- Influence on Western Art
- The Congo Region
- Cameroon and Gabon
- Nigeria
- Western Sudan and Guinea Coast
- Bibliography
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