The Collection at the BMA

Featured Works

Costume for Egungun Masquerade

A lovely Yuan lacquered plate with two parrots playing amongst plants

Parrot Plate

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Unframed diptych, two separate 40X32 inch photographs

Mary Parker and Caela Cowan

In this sweeping view of a Venetian canal with historic buildings on either side, gondolas laden with passengers are being steered by their gondoliers.

View of the Grand Canal

Large round jar with foot, narrows slightly toward the bottom. Raised ridge around widest portion of vessel. Shoulder decorated with groups of angled and curved parallel incised lines; bottom half with incised geometric patterns. Reddish color with fire clouds.

Vessel

  • Bozo people, Jenne, Mali (also spelled Djenne), African
  • fired clay
Abstract sculpture in bronze on a slate base

Two Forms in Echelon

Vertical woven paper basket with round mouth and square bottom, in Cherokee water pattern; paper dyed shades of blue, lavender, and black. Photograph of Tuckasegee River in central band; text written on paper weaving strips drawn from David Archimbault's speech to United Nations in response to Dakota Access Pipieline on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

Lifeline

Mask (mukenga or mukyeem)

An enormous and complex multi-figure painting set in an African-American beauty salon/beauty academy. Mirrors in the painting are outlined in glitter, which Marshall applies to the surface in a gel medium. The painting’s unstretched canvas surface has grommets running along its outer perimeter. The painting hangs on screws threaded through the grommets. The composition ends just short of the support’s outer edges.

School of Beauty, School of Culture

Standing image of Buddha, base missing

Buddha

Hide shield attached by leather strips to oval wooden frame; vertical wooden handle on back; patterns in blue, white, black, ochre, red pigments.

Shield

Large, rectangular, cast-iron plaque with the relief image of the Deposition, or Entombment of Christ, after being removed from the cross, the body of Christ is carried by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea to the grave, behind them are the Virgin Mary swooning, Mary Magdalene, Martha and her sister Mary as well as Saint John against an architectural background, in a cast-iron frame with acanthus leaf motifs.

The Entombment of Christ