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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
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
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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.

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