ART ON VIEW
The museum’s curatorial departments include
the arts of Africa, Mesoamerica, ancient Mediterranean,
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Asia, the Pacifi c, Europe, American
and Regional art—including Native American
arts, and modern and contemporary. The latter
galleries now display the work of international
and local women artists. The arts of Africa had
not been on display since 2011. The arts of the
Pacifi c galleries had previously been on view,
but were redesigned. Wall texts and labels in
English and Spanish with new research were
FIG. 6 (left):
Prestige cloth.
Kuba, DR Congo.
20th century.
Raffi a palm fi ber, dye.
63.5 x 54.6 cm.
UMFA, gift of Owen D. Mort Jr. to
the Owen D. Mort Jr. Collection of
African Art, inv. 2007.11.15.
FIG. 7 (above):
Installation view of Yaka
masks in the new African
gallery at the Utah Museum
of Fine Arts.
Photo: Adelaide Ryder, UMFA.
added to the refurbished Mesoamerican gallery,
and the renewed galleries for Asia include
a new one for Chinese art.
The African collection has grown over time
through gifts and purchases. It provides an excellent
opportunity to present the numerous art
forms created on the continent. The new Arts
of Africa gallery includes textiles and threedimensional
works from the museum’s permanent
collection and focuses on the extraordinary
scope of artistic practice from twenty-one