With the newly renovated and reinstalled Arts of Africa Gallery set to open next month, it is an ideal time to take a look back at some previous installations of African art at the DMA.
African Gallery at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Fair Park, in 1972.
African Gallery at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Fair Park, in 1978.
African Gallery at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Fair Park, in 1979.
African Gallery at the Dallas Museum of Art, downtown, in 1989.
African Gallery at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1992.
African Gallery at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1996. This image was taken after the major renovation and reinstallation of the third floor galleries, The Arts of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, in 1996, the last major renovation of the African Gallery.
It is interesting to see how the installations have changed over time from dark-colored galleries, to white walls, and back to deeper colors, and from primarily cases of three-dimensional objects set in the walls to primarily vitrines so you can see all sides of the object.
Hillary Bober is the Archivist at the Dallas Museum of Art.
