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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
I Want To Be At A Gallery Abroad
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

I Want To Be At A Gallery Abroad

Artist Kwame Akoto (Ghanaian, born 1950)
Date2011
Made/manufacturedKumasi, Ghana
MediumPigment on plywood
Dimensions23 13/16 × 25 in. (60.5 × 63.5 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Doran Ross
Object number2018.75.5
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionArtist's wooden palette with partial faces seeming to be peering out from under splotches of green, red, blue and yellow paint. The white frame is inscribed in black on top and bottom rails" "I want to be at a gallery abroad, I dislike been a palette, oh! Kwame Akoto/ But I believe one day an art lover will take me to gallery I will appear in books."
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
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Kwame Akoto
2004
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Marriage is Hotter than Pepper
Kwame Akoto
2005
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Mami Wata is a Mermaid Spirit who Lives in the Sea
Kwame Akoto
2010
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Self Portrait (Do not cry, Kwame)
Kwame Akoto
2016
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Human Skull (smoking series)
Kwame Akoto
2004
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
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2000; print 2021
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2000; print 2021
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2003
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