Eclipse

• Title Eclipse
• Category Print
• Medium Etching
• Dimensions 15.5"h x 11"w
• Framed Dimensions 26"h x 20.5"w
• Year Completed 1967
• Description Lino bronze relief print. Ed. 1/50.
• Notes “Eclipse” is a limited bronze release, purchased in 1967. The artist, Onobrakpeya was born in Ughelli Nigeria in 1932. This print was created after an eclipse of the sun and depicts the feeling of horror felt by the village people. This is the first edition of a fifty-part series of prints. The Smithsonian Institute interpreted the imagery in another way, perhaps as an embodiment of societal unease in the face of the impending Nigerian Civil War*. This idea is backed up by the geometric designs that echo Akwete cloth in addition to the half sun seen both on this print and the Biafran flag. He is an art teacher in Nigeria and the founder of the Harmattan Workshop, an art foundation*. He is a well-known and renowned Nigerian artist. *Smithsonian Institution, “Eclipse.” (Smithsonian Institution). *Janet Stanley, “Bruce Onobrakpeya and the Harmattan Workshop: Artistic Experimentation in the Niger Delta.” (African Arts, vol. 44, no.4, 2011), 22-35.
• Artist Bruce Onobrakpeya Nigerian b. 1932
• Credit Clyde and Annie Matters Collection
• Location Hawthorne 115
• Accession Number 1994.0022
• Status Checked Out
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