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

Human Skull (smoking series)

Artist Kwame Akoto (Ghanaian, born 1950)
Date2004
Made/manufacturedKumasi, Ghana
MediumPigment on plywood
Dimensions15 15/16 × 18 in. (40.5 × 45.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Doran Ross
Object number2018.75.4
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionHuman skull in profile smoking cigarette, in black background the
inscription in white reads: .. IF YOU DON'T KNOW LET ME TELL YOU. Smoking
Killed Me."

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