Men Taking Banana Beer to Bride by Night
1956 · Oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 20" (40.9 x 50.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Sam Joseph Ntiro
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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Sam Joseph Ntiro was a Tanzanian painter and sculptor whose practice emerged in the postwar period in East Africa, a formative moment for artistic modernism across the region. Working across both media, Ntiro developed a distinctive approach that negotiated between colonial legacies and emergent African modernism during Tanzania's transition to independence. His work remains central to the history of twentieth-century East African art.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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