| Franklin, Harry A. | |||||||||||||
| type | Collector Dealer/Gallery | ||||||||||||
| dates | 1904-1983 | ||||||||||||
| city | Beverly Hills | ||||||||||||
| state | CA | ||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||
| history |
Harry A. Franklin was an African and Oceanic art collector, dealer and textile executive. He and his wife, Ruth, built a collection of Oceanic and African Art. Consigned by their daughter, Valerie Franklin-Nordin, Franklin's collection of African art was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1990 and included, among 400 other ethnographic objects, roughly 80 works from Cameroon (masks, exotic anthropomorphic carvings, stools, maternity figures, drums, brass necklaces and chief's regalia). In 2008 Valerie donated the family’s collection of Oceanic art to the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. The donation consisted of artworks from Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu and included painted bark panels, masks, sculptural figures, ancestral boards, and drums. |
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| decades | 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 |
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| updated | 03/22/2024 12:09:31 | ||||||||||||
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