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Painting

MOA: University of British Columbia

3595/52

Painting depicting a stylized figure composed of many geometric shapes and lines. The figure's face is composed of green, black, and red lines (both curved and straight) and red dots. The figure's body is composed of red, black, and green concentric circles, u and v-shaped lines, dots, and both curved and straight lines. The head and body of the figure are outlined with black, red, and green lines and dots. The cloth has uneven edges.

  • Narrative

    Collected by Fred Haack in South Sudan. Haack said he spent "a great deal of time in Juba" from 1979-c. 1982, where he acquired 80 Dinka paintings. Haack wrote that the paintings were made by "a young Dinka tribesman who went to a missionary school for a few months and, with no training, put paint to canvas." The artist's name in unknown. Haack gave 70 of the paintings to the Museum of Civilization in 1994. In 1996 he gave the last 10 to the Kelowna Museum (now Okanagan Heritage Museum).

  • Type of Item painting
  • Culture Dinka
  • Measurements height 95.8 cm, width 50.8 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Fred E. Haack, Okanagan Heritage Museum
  • Received from Okanagan Heritage Museum
  • Collection Date between 1979 and 1982
  • Ownership Date before 1996, before September 14, 2022
  • Acquisition Date on September 14, 2022
  • Item Classes paintings
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3595/0052

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