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Elephant (smoking series)
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Elephant (smoking series)

Artist Kwame Akoto (Ghanaian, born 1950)
Date2004
Made/manufacturedKumasi, Ghana
MediumPigment on plywood
Dimensions30 × 47 1/2 in. (76.2 × 120.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Doran Ross
Object number2018.75.3
Collections
Descriptionrealistic image of elephant's head in profile with raised trunk, smoking a cigarette, on a flat blue background; inscription on painting reads: I will stop smoking because it kills gradually-white letters shadowed in red and black.
Signature on lower left comer reads: Kwame Akoto Almighty God Artworks, Kwnasi 011 lower right corner.
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Mami Wata is a Mermaid Spirit who Lives in the Sea
Kwame Akoto
2010
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Marriage is Hotter than Pepper
Kwame Akoto
2005
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Human Skull (smoking series)
Kwame Akoto
2004
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I Want To Be At A Gallery Abroad
Kwame Akoto
2011
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Self Portrait (Do not cry, Kwame)
Kwame Akoto
2016
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Penguins
Panamanian
mid 1950s - 1960s
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Gas Station, Sunoco
Konrad Cramer
c. 1930s
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Carpenter’s Shop (c. 1860s), Gainesville, Alabama
Don Norris
2009
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Max Ernst, New York, 1942
Arnold Newman
1942, printed later
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Wrapper (kanga)
Tanzanian Artist
2009
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Wrapper (kanga)
Tanzanian Artist
2009
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Wrapper (kanga)
Tanzanian Artist
2009

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