Research Catalog

[The Harold and Florence Rome collection of African art]

Title: [The Harold and Florence Rome collection of African art] [realia].
Author: Rome, Harold, 1908-1993.
Publication: 1937?-1988?

Details

Additional Authors

Rome, Florence.

Found In

(CstRLIN)NYPG085000078-F

Description

43 figures.
11 utensils.
3 busts.
1 fan.
4 weapons.
23 masks.
350 goldweights.
2 stools.
3 ivory horns.
8 musical instruments.
4 ornaments.
4 neck rests.
7 combs.
15 gold implements.
2 games.
1 pipe.
6 staffs.
4 canes.
7 locks.
2 boards.
1 bellow.
3 kuduos.
1 door.

Summary

A collection of masks, statues, goldweights, musical instruments, games, staffs, weapons, utilitarian and adornment items from Nigeria, Mali, Zaire, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Benin, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Burkina Faso and Ghana. The collection contains over 395 objects from west and central Africa. It is comprised of both secular and religious objects. Ethnic groups represented are the: Kuba, Bushongo, Mangbetu, Wabembe, Basonge, Luba, Pende, Basa, Kota, Ashanti, Yoruba, Igbo, Bateke, Fang, Senufo, Baule, Mende, Dogon, Lobi, Dan, Mossi, Falacha, Fon and Guro.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

Access (note)

Access to the collection is by appointment only and is restricted to qualified and experienced researchers.

Cite As (note)

From the collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor Lenox & Tilden Foundation, Arts & Artifacts Division.

Terms of Use (note)

Works from the collection may be borrowed for exhibition purposes. Photography of art or artifacts in the collection is prohibited. In most instances, prints of collection items are available for sale to researchers. Permission for loans and to reproduce prints for publication must be obtained in writing.

Provenance (note)

Harold Rome, the noted composer and producer of Broadway musicals, initiated his interest in collecting while on his first trip to Paris in 1932. Stumbling on the Colonial Exposition in the Champs de Mars, he saw African sculpture for the first time and to him it was "love at first sight." Committed to enriching the cultural heritage of all people, Mr. Rome amassed a collection of art from west and central Africa, many of the works decorative and utilitarian objects of geometric or of abstract human form. Donated to the Schomburg Center in 1988, the Harold and Florence Rome Collection of over 395 art works reflects the Romes' predilection for pure sculptural form, and also exemplifies traditional African cultures. The Harold Rome Library of African Art, given to the Schomburg Center by the Romes in 1987, includes some 1,200 titles, forming the foundation of a reference library in the Center's Art and Artifacts Division.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the African Art and Artifacts Collection.

Call Number

Sc Art (Harold and Florence Rome collection of African art)

OCLC

NYPG087000002-F

Author

Rome, Harold, 1908-1993. Collector

Title

[The Harold and Florence Rome collection of African art] [realia].

Imprint

1937?-1988?

Access

Access to the collection is by appointment only and is restricted to qualified and experienced researchers.

Cite As:

From the collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor Lenox & Tilden Foundation, Arts & Artifacts Division.

Terms Of Use

Works from the collection may be borrowed for exhibition purposes. Photography of art or artifacts in the collection is prohibited. In most instances, prints of collection items are available for sale to researchers. Permission for loans and to reproduce prints for publication must be obtained in writing.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the African Art and Artifacts Collection.

Provenance

Harold Rome, the noted composer and producer of Broadway musicals, initiated his interest in collecting while on his first trip to Paris in 1932. Stumbling on the Colonial Exposition in the Champs de Mars, he saw African sculpture for the first time and to him it was "love at first sight." Committed to enriching the cultural heritage of all people, Mr. Rome amassed a collection of art from west and central Africa, many of the works decorative and utilitarian objects of geometric or of abstract human form. Donated to the Schomburg Center in 1988, the Harold and Florence Rome Collection of over 395 art works reflects the Romes' predilection for pure sculptural form, and also exemplifies traditional African cultures. The Harold Rome Library of African Art, given to the Schomburg Center by the Romes in 1987, includes some 1,200 titles, forming the foundation of a reference library in the Center's Art and Artifacts Division.

Added Author

Rome, Florence. Collector

Found In:

(CstRLIN)NYPG085000078-F

Research Call Number

Sc Art (Harold and Florence Rome collection of African art)

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