l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Teel Curator for African and Oceanic Art

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

kgunsch@mfa.org

465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02118

617-369-3226

Nigeria (Benin Kingdom)

Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
PhD September 2012
Dissertation: Images for the King: The Bronze Plaques of the Benin Court in their Architectural Context
Advisors: Susan Vogel and Jonathan Hay

Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Master of Arts 2008
Primary study in the History of Italian Renaissance Art and African Art

American University, Washington D.C.
Bachelor of Arts with Honors 2001
Dual Major in Art History and International Development

Court art, patronage, workshop production methods, series, bronzes

“Art and/or Ethnographica? The Reception of Benin Works from 1897-1935.” African Arts 46 No. 4 (Winter 2013): 14-23.

Barnes Foundation Catalogue of African Art in the Permanent Collection. Entries on Benin hip ornaments and a Benin figure. Forthcoming.

Review of _Whose Africa? Art Treasures from the Kingdom of Benin in the Collection of the Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm_, edited by Wilhelm Ostberg, published by Etnografiska Museet, 2010. In African Arts. Invited Review. Summer 2012.

Benin, plaques, Nigeria, art history, 16th century