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Cafe Manet

Artist Red Grooms (American, born 1937)

Date1976

DimensionsOverall: 13 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (33.7 x 37.5 cm)

MediumEtching and Aquatint

ClassificationPrints

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1981.113

Not on View

Label TextThe forest and wilderness are considered by the Bamana people to be domains of danger and unpredictability. For that reason, hunters must have extraordinary insight and knowledge, and hunters’ shirts reflect their mastery of special knowledge and powers. Such shirts are considered to have magical secrets encoded in the designs, whose geometrical patterns are derived from Islamic magic squares used for protection and healing. A hunter wears such a shirt only on ceremonial occasions, and the shirt is considered to be so potent that it must never be worn by another person.Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, Contempary Prints, Aug. 17-Oct. 30, 1983.

Toledo Museum of Art, Contempary Realistic Prints, Mar. 17-June 3, 1984.

Toledo Musuem of Art, Images From America, Sept.-Oct. 1995.

Toledo Museum of Art, Satire Show, Mar. 17-Jun. 25, 2006.

Toledo Museum of Art, Fun & Games: The Pursuit of Leisure, Jun. 27-Sept. 21, 2014.