Plaster Cast of Terra Cotta Sculpture. Yoruba.
1935
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1935
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Plaster Cast of Terra Cotta Sculpture. Yoruba. is a 1935 photographic by Walker Evans, depicting Putto, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a small, crumpled plaster figure of a person holding what looks like a bird. The sculpture is rough and simple, with smooth curves in the body but sharp, almost broken edges where the arms and legs fold. The surface is plain, with no paint or extra details—just the shape itself. The photo was taken in 1935 as part of an art show in New York. This particular piece is a copy of an older clay sculpture from the Yoruba people, but the photo itself was made by Walker Evans. Next, look up Walker Evans to see more of his work.
A photograph by Walker Evans from 1935 depicts a plaster cast of a Yoruba terra cotta figure, originally part of an African art exhibition. The cast reproduces a sculpture discovered by Leo Frobenius in Ifa during a 1910 expedition before entering the collection of the Forschungsinstitut in Frankfurt-on-Main.
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Walker Evans made stark black-and-white photos of carved wooden heads from Benin in 1935.
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