The Seated II

Artist Wangechi Mutu (Kenyan-American (born Nairobi), born 1972)

Place of OriginAmerica

Date2019

Dimensions80 3/4 × 37 1/4 × 31 3/4 in. (205.1 × 94.6 × 80.6 cm)

MediumBronze

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by Georgia E. Welles, Margy and Scott Trumbull, and Sara Jane and William DeHoff

Object number

2021.14

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 01

DescriptionSeated female figure enrobed with 'extruded' coil gown. Figure has elongated fingers and a round disc on her forward. The back of her head also takes and elongated form. The entire figure has a patina that ranges form gold-bronze in color.

Published ReferencesWangechi Mutu: Intertwined, New York, Phaidon Press Inc., New Museum 2023, p.134, repr. (col.) p. 133.Comparative ReferencesNew York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Facade Commission: The NewOnes, will free Us, September 19, 2019 - June 8, 2020. [work in the show was not the TMA edition]