PHILADELPHIA FIG. 14 (below): Installation view of Look Again showing classical African statuary. Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photograph by Timothy Tiebout, 2016. 101 NOTES 1. I would also like to acknowledge the support of Dwaune Latimer, friendly keeper of collections at the Penn Museum, who generously shared her passion for and knowledge of the African collection with us throughout the exhibition process. In addition, I thank Suzanne Preston Blier, Nichole Bridges, Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, Susan Kloman, Constantine Petridis, Kate Quinn, Marla Shoemaker, and Tukufu Zuberi for participating in an exhibition workshop with staff from the Penn Museum and PMA in spring 2015 that resulted in an initial checklist. Yaëlle Biro, Frederic Cloth, Kathy Curnow, Christraud Geary, Steven Nelson, Barbara Plankensteiner, Jeffrey Spurr, and Monica Visona all offered valuable insights into object research, and I extend my gratitude to each of them. 2. The PMA counts fewer than 100 African objects and textiles in its collection. Many of these were received as parts of larger gifts from donors who were giving to other areas of the collection. Perhaps the most well-known examples are two Fang sculptures included in a major gift of modern and Pre-Columbian art given to the PMA by Walter and Louise Arensberg in 1950. Both Fang sculptures appear in Look Again, as do two Kota reliquaries donated to PMA from the collections of John F. Harbeson and Louis E. Stern. 3. The Barnes Foundation, which would prove to be another important institution for African art in Philadelphia, was launched in 1922. Albert Barnes had acquired numerous African works by that time, a great number of which were sourced by Paul Guillaume. See: Christa Clarke, African Art in the Barnes Foundation: The Triumph of L’Art nègre and the Harlem Renaissance (New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2015). 4. For an excellent historical overview of the Penn Museum’s African interests and Congolese collection, see Yaëlle Biro (with object entries by Constantine Petridis), “A Pioneering Collection at the Turn of the 20th Century: Acquiring Congolese Art at the Penn Museum, Philadelphia,” Tribal Art, summer 2013, XVII-3 (no. 68), pp. 100–117. 5. PMA hosted three exhibitions drawn from the Penn Museum’s African collections in the past: Impact Africa: African Art and the West, organized by PMA’s Education Division in 1969; Nigerian Art from the University Museum, curated by Peter Sutton with Paula Ben-Amos in 1982; and African Sculpture from the University Museum, curated by Allen Wardwell with Donald J. LaRocca in 1986–87. 6. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, The Benin Plaques: A 16th-Century Imperial Monument, Taylor & Francis, publication pending. 7. Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art was on view at Pulitzer Arts Foundation from October 16, 2015, to March 19, 2016, and was accompanied by a 2015 special issue of Tribal Art titled Kota: New Light.
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