CARVING AN ASHANTI STOOL

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Sizes are (18 x 24 inches) (price)
Medium of painting [oil on board]

CARVING AN ASHANTI STOOL (1977)

In 1976 Claude Clark and his son traveled in the west African countries of Ghana and Nigeria. Clark returned to Ghana in the spring of 1978, on sabbatical leave from Merritt College, to live with an Ashanti family. To the bottom

Researching Ghanaian culture and art, he pivoted from the university and the Ghana National Culture Center in Kumasi to travel the length and breadth of the country. Of all the artists and craftsmen that Clark observed in Ghana, none impressed him more than those carving the Ashanti stools.

One busy group of carvers near Accra would carve stools related to you or your loved one's personality. But, the most memorable group of carvers worked in a village near Kumasi. The men sat under their canopies (among blocks of wood) in front of the many shops that sold their finished products.

Nothing has measured,and it seemed like magic to see a genius shape a block of wood. cutting with the adze in one hand and turning the piece with the other hand, a rectangular stool would evolve.

Claude Clark gathered much visual material on both visits to Ghana. but,it was from the record of an unknown photographer that he was inspired to create the painting entitled: "Carving an Ashanti Stool."

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