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FHYA curation of selected materials from the Traditional Collection at the Johannesburg Art Gallery
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FHYA curation of selected materials from the Traditional Collection at the Johannesburg Art Gallery

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  • 2017 -

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using materials provided by Nessa Leibhammer: Nessa Leibhammer was the curator of the Johannesburg Art Gallery Traditional Collections from 1994 to 1996, and 2005 to 2013. Leibhammer, for the FHYA, identified objects from the Traditional Collections that came from the FHYA target area of KwaZulu-Natal and immediately adjacent regions which she identified as probably dating to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She selected a series of items from the Brenthurst Collection (assembled by Jonathan Lowen); the Horstmann Collection (assembled by Udo Horstmann); the Maritz Collection (assembled by Nicholas Maritz); the Brodie Collection (assembled by Mordechai Brodie); the Karner Collection (assembled by Ken Karner) as well as items owned by the Jaques family, purchased by JAG in 1987. The selection includes a range of genre: carved wooden objects, metal and beadwork items, staffs, snuff boxes, headrests, vessels, baskets, pots, etc. She also purposefully selected objects where she knew there were similar examples in other, older, collections as well as notable items where no secure information is known, so as to open the possibility that such items might accrue an information context through appearing on the FHYA exemplar.

The FHYA ordered this material into ‘series’ with each ‘series’ being named after the collector.]

FHYA selection from Brenthurst Series

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA using materials provided by Nessa Leibhammer, 2018: The FHYA selection of the items within the Brenthurst Collection was made by Nessa Leibhammer, who curated the Traditional Collections from 1994 to 1996, and then again from 2005 to 2013. This selection currently contains 16 items, and their associated material, which Leibhammer identified as probably dating to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and as coming from the FHYA target area of KwaZulu-Natal and immediately adjacent regions.]

Unknown maker - Male figure and female figure and associated items

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018: File contains an object and it's associated material at JAG, identified by Nessa Leibhammer using JAG materials as a 'male figure and female figure' acquired by Harry Oppenheimer for the Brenthurst Library from Jonathan Lowen. The Brenthurst Collection is on long term loan to the Johannesburg Art Gallery.]

Spine of 'JAG Archives: Traditional Collection: Brenthurst Collection: From Lowen Collection: 11/1A VOL 1 10/58; 11/1A VOL 2: Art & Ambiguity. Vol 1: Correspondence Reports 10/58'

[Source - Debra Pryor for FHYA, 2020, using JAG materials: Spine of 'JAG Archives: Traditional Collection: Brenthurst Collection: From Lowen Collection: 11/1A VOL 1 10/58; 11/1A VOL 2: Art & Ambiguity. Vol 1: Correspondence Reports 10/58'. To view the full record click the link in the Associated materials field below.]

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