Canvas made of cotton hand-woven strips sewn at selvedges, covered with pigment, paint, and cut-out sections of cloth; tertiary colors, muted gray and brown fields of color, soft edge "horizon line"

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Artist Viyé Diba (Senegalese, born 1954)

Date2007

Place of originSenegal

MediumMixed media

Dimensions55 x 51 in. (139.7 x 129.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineMuseum purchase, gift of Mrs. Ruth Pruitt Phillips

Object number2009.44

Collections

CONTEMPORARY

Visual DescriptionCanvas made of cotton hand-woven strips sewn at selvedges, covered with pigment, paint, and cut-out sections of cloth; tertiary colors, muted gray and brown fields of color, soft edge "horizon line"

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