Magnificent Facades: Paintings and Architecture by Abelam Artists at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Magnificent Facades: Paintings and Architecture by Abelam Artists
June - December 31, 2009
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Now showing in the Mezzanine gallery in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art through  December 31, 2009. J. Anthony Forge (1929-1991) worked with Abelam artists living in several villages in the Sepik Hills area of Papua New Guinea. During one visit in 1958-59 he commissioned artists to paint traditional designs, normally used for house facades, on rectangular sheets of grey paper. Several years later, Forge produced a set of nine silkscreen prints based on the paintings. This installation will include the prints and Forge’s photographs of the artists at work.

Open Tuesdays-Fridays 10am-4:30 pm, Obtain a free pass from an Information Desk to the Photograph Study Collection or Goldwater Library to see the exhibition.