The Horse Rider in African Art

Horses are very rare in Africa. The few to be found west of Sudan, from the lands of the Sahara and Sahel down to the fringes of the tropical forests, belong to the king, the chief warrior and to notable persons. Due to the dense humidity of the tropical

George Chemeche is an artist whose work is in many museums, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. He lives in New York City. He is co-author and curator of Ibeji. The Cult of Yoruba Twins.

Kate Ezra is currently Nolen Curator of Academic Affairs at the Yale University Art Gallery. Previously she has been Associate Curator of African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and professor of Art History at Columbia College, Chicago. She has curated more than a dozen exhibitions on African Art and she is the author of Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mary Jo Arnoldi is Curator of African Ethnology and Arts the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She has curated several exhibitions and is the author of Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali.

John Pemberton III, now retired, was Crosby Professor of Religion at Amherst College, Massachusetts. He is the coauthor of Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, Yoruba Art and Aesthetics, Yoruba Sacred Kingship, and Insight and Artistry in African Divination. He lives in Pelham, Massachusetts.

Bernard de Grunne has been an antiques dealer since 1996. He has a PhD in History of Art, Yale University, 1987. He was Director at Sotheby's, New-York and London from 1987 to 1992. He has written extensively on African Art and curated several exhibitions; amongst them Mains de Maitres. A la découverte des sculpteurs d'Afrique.

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The Horse Rider in African Art

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