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Africa Where it All Begins

X2007.6.1 Africa Where It All Begins

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Object Name: Africa Where It All Begins

Artist: Wosene Kosrof (b. 1950, lives and works in Berkeley, California)

Place of Origin: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Date/Era: 2006

Dimensions: Canvas, acrylic, wood

Medium/Materials: 141 x 122 cm

Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Museum purchase.

Accession Number: X2007.6.1

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Source: Marla C. Berns, World Arts, Local Lives: The Collections of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, 2014

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