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Jacqueline Trescott. "Africa's image, writ larger; New statue just one tactic to raise small museum's profile." The Washington Post. WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post. 2010. HighBeam Research. 6 Feb. 2017 <https://www.highbeam.com>.
Jacqueline Trescott. "Africa's image, writ larger; New statue just one tactic to raise small museum's profile." The Washington Post. 2010. HighBeam Research. (February 6, 2017). https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22136782.html
Jacqueline Trescott. "Africa's image, writ larger; New statue just one tactic to raise small museum's profile." The Washington Post. WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post. 2010. Retrieved February 06, 2017 from HighBeam Research: https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22136782.html
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When museum curator Christine Mullen Kreamer read a year ago that a towering sculpture of Toussaint Louverture created by Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow was up for auction, she knew it was a perfect fit for the National Museum of African Art. And Kreamer knew she had an ally, even if the acquisitions budget had to be pumped.
Johnnetta Betsch Cole, the museum's director, didn't hesitate to back her deputy director. She knew the work of this contemporary artist would again signal the museum's seriousness about living artists. She knew the statue was a showstopper, bigger-than-life- size, with its haunting carving of Louverture, the leader of the successful Haitian slave revolution against the French, comforting a slave woman at his feet. …
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