Neuberger at African Antiques

African Art David Norden |Mail|map Sint Katelijnevest 27. B2000 ANTWERPEN-Belgium. Tel +32 3 227 35 40
Discover the African Art books I like

Neuberger Museum of Arts

neuberger

Male reliquary guardian figure (eyema bieri) Fang Peoples. Ntumu style, Equatorial Guinea, wood, 19th - 20th century, 29 x 6 ½ inches. Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, gift of Lawrence Gussman.

Purchase College, State University of New York
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase NY 10577-1400.
Phone: 914-251-6100 Fax: 914-251-6101

http://www.neuberger.org

African Art from the Neuberger Permanent Collection

Partial view from the entrance of the Permanent African Art Collection
Photo: Jim Frank

The African art collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art provides an outstanding introduction to the richness and complexity of the visual artistic traditions of Africa. Spanning a broad geographic range from Mali to Mozambique, the works presented here represent the creativity of African artists from over thirty different cultures. Object types include masks, figural sculpture, textiles, and utilitarian objects, created from diverse materials such as wood, ivory, horn, fabric, clay and metal.

The installation is arranged geographically, beginning with western African artistic traditions and continuing through to the arts of eastern and southern Africa. Within these regional sections, groupings of objects address a variety of themes, including: Masks and Masquerades, Artists and Patrons, Ritual and Performance, Power and Prestige, Rites of Passage, and Art and Daily Life.

The Museum is located at:
Purchase College, State University of New York
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase NY 10577-1400.
Phone: 914-251-6100 Fax: 914-251-6101

By Car, the Neuberger Museum of Art is
10 minutes from White Plains, NY
45 minutes from midtown Manhattan, and
10 minutes from Greenwich, Connecticut.

More info Neuberger Museum of Arts

Collections

The Museum was founded in 1969 when art patron Roy R. Neuberger donated his collection of 20th century American art to the State University of New York at Purchase. The museum opened to the public in 1974. This amazing collection -- on permanent view -- features art by Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Graves, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock and more.

The Museum currently houses more than 6,000 paintings, sculpture, prints, photographs and works on paper. In addition to the Roy R. Neuberger Collection of American Art and ancient artifacts, the Museum's permanent collection includes:

The Aimee W. Hirshberg Collection of African Art, Westchester Country's only permanent collection of African art
The George and Edith Rickey collection of Constructivist Art
The Hans Richter Bequest of Dada and Surrealist Objects
The Alexander and Dina Racolin Collection

Benin Bronzes