About the Artwork
Male Equestrian Figure
between 1875 and 1910
Voania
1875 - 1928
African
Woyo
Terracotta
Overall: 17 × 10 1/4 × 7 5/16 inches (43.2 × 26 × 18.6 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art, the Arthur D. Coar Endowment Fund, Joseph H. Boyer Memorial Fund, and the Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund
1994.47
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Professor Robert Farris Thompson. (Alan Brandt, Inc., New York, New York, USA)
1994-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Voania, Male Equestrian Figure, between 1875 and 1910, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of African and African American Art, the Arthur D. Coar Endowment Fund, et al., 1994.47.
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