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Museum of Primitive Art, New York City, a privately supported institution, established in 1957. It was devoted entirely to the arts of the indigenous cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and to those art objects related to the early civilizations of Asia and Europe. The museum was founded by Nelson A. Rockefeller. In 1976, the museum closed, and the collection was transferred to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Goldwater modified these to three in his well-known catalogue for his 1964 exhibition of Senufo art at the Museum of Primitive Art in New York City. However, in 1976, Tamara Northern, a leading scholar in Cameroonian art and former curator of African collections at New York's Museum of Primitive Art, was appointed curator of ethnographic art and as an adjunct faculty member in the anthropology department. There was generally little activity with African material in art museums during the 1940s and early 1950s, but the founding of the Museum of Primitive Art in 1957 and the burgeoning civil rights movement spurred interest in "non-Western" traditions, especially African. |
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