Fall of 2014 marked the release of a publication exploring the history of the Fowler Museum and its vast collections: World Arts, Local Lives: The Collections of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. This lavishly illustrated volume demonstrates the scope and depth of the remarkable global holdings of the Fowler and has been produced as part of the ongoing celebration of the institution’s fiftieth-anniversary year. It recalls many of the highlights of the Museum’s formation, focusing not only on collections development but also on a long history of programmatic innovation.
Object Name: Dewi Sri shadow puppet (wayang purwa)
Artist: Daniel Mulyana (still active)
Culture: Javanese peoples
Place of Origin: Tumpang, East Java, Indonesia
Date/Era: 2000
Dimensions: H: 66 cm
Medium/Materials: Leather, paint, buffalo horn
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Museum purchase.
Accession Number: X2002.16.1
Object Name: Anthropomorphic Figure
Artist: Unknown
Culture: Lega peoples
Place of Origin: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date/Era: Late 19th century
Medium/Materials: Ivory
Dimensions: H: 17.30 cm, W: 5.50 cm, D: 4.80 cm.
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of Jay T. Last.
Accession Number: X2003.30.1
Object Name: El Arbol de la Muerte: Maquilando Mujeres (The Tree of Death: Factory Women)
Artist: Veronica Castillo Hernández (b. 1967, Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico; lives and works in San Antonio, Texas, United States)
Place of Origin: San Antonio, Texas, United States
Date/Era: 2003
Dimensions: H: 87.0 cm, W: 70.0 cm, D: 29.0 cm (H: 34.3 in, W: 27.6 in, D: 11.4 in)
Medium/Materials: Ceramic, paint, wire
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of Thomas Wortham.
Accession Number: X2004.20.1
Object Name: Aids Is a Killer
Artist: Kwame Akoto, a.k.a. Almighty God Art Works (b. 1950)
Place of Origin: Ghana
Date/Era: 1998
Dimensions: 121.2 x 75.6 cm
Medium/Materials: Paint, board
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of Doran H. Ross.
Accession Number: X2007.12.10
Object Name: Woman’s shoulder cloth (sayut)
Artist: Unknown
Culture: Javanese peoples
Place of Origin: Gendong, Kerek, East Java, Indonesia
Date/Era: Late 1970s
Dimensions: 324 x 59 cm
Medium/Materials: Cotton
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Rens Heringa Collection. Purchased with funds provided by the Fowler Museum Textile Council of Indonesian Art.
Accession Number: X2008.10.12
Object Name: Skirt
Artist: Unknown
Culture: Shipibo
Place of Origin: Peru
Date/Era: Early to mid-20th century
Dimensions: 74.9 x 71.1 cm
Medium/Materials: Cotton, embroidery thread, ribbon
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Altman.
Accession Number: X64.181a
Not Currently On View in Intersections
Object Name: Ceremonial chair
Artist: Unknown
Place of Origin: Central Western Grassfields, Cameroon
Date/Era: Early 20th century
Dimensions: H: 81.5 cm
Medium/Materials: Wood
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of the Wellcome Trust.
Accession Number: X65.1621
Object Name: Headdress (ere egungun olode)
Artist: Attributed to Adugbologe (d. Circa. 1940)
Culture: Yoruba peoples
Place of Origin: Abeokuta, Nigeria
Date/Era: Made prior to 1922
Dimensions: H: 45.0 cm, W: 41.0 cm, D: 33.0 cm (H: 17.7 in, W: 16.1 in, D: 12.9 in)
Medium/Materials: Wood and pigment
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of the Wellcome Trust.
Accession Number: X65.9051
Object Name: Yarn painting
Artist: Ramón Medina Silva
Place of Origin: Huichol, Mexico
Date/Era: Circa 1926 – 1971
Dimensions: 61 x 61 cm
Medium/Materials: Yarn, beeswax, fiberboard
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Museum purchase courtesy of the Ford Foundation, Collected by Peter T. Furst.
Accession Number: X67.51
Object Name: Doorway panels
Artist: Unknown
Culture: Paiwan peoples
Place of Origin: Taiwan
Date/Era: Early 20th century
Dimensions: H: 185.0 cm, W: 41.0 cm, D: 9.0 cm (H: 72.8 in, W: 16.1 in, D: 3.5 in)
Medium/Materials: Wood, porcelain, bottle caps
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. The H.P. and J.F. Ullman Collection.
Accession Number: X72.833
Object Name: Granary facade (alang)
Artist: Unknown
Culture: Sa’dan Toraja peoples
Place of Origin: Tondon, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Date/Era: 19th century
Medium/Materials: Wood, paint
Dimensions: H: 211 cm
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Kuhn.
Accession Number: X85.855
Object Name: Double spout and bridge bottle
Artist: Unknown
Culture: Nasca
Place of Origin: Peru, south coast
Date/Era: 100 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.
Medium/Materials: Ceramic
Dimensions: W: 17.5 cm, H: 18.2 cm, D: 17.5 cm (W: 6.8 in, H: 7.1 in, D: 6.8 in)
Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Lucas, Jr.
Accession Number: X86.3720