Creator(s)	Jackson, Reginald L., artist.
Title	African Meeting House.
Link to library catalog record	http://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=428570
Date	2002.
Publishing details	[Boston?] : [Printed by] Reginald L. Jackson.
Physical Description	1 screen print on white wove paper : photoserigraph ; image 44.5 x 54.7 cm., sheet 57 x 75.7 cm.
Summary	Series: The urban ceremonial mask series. Silkscreen print of an African mask superimposed over the facade of the African Meetinghouse in Boston, Mass. Artist was commissioned to create this image for the 350th celebration of the founding of Boston in 1980. Silkscreen first printed in 1981; this impression was printed by the artist in 2002. The African mask depicted in this silkscreen is a sixteenth century Nigerian mask known as the Benin Ceremonial Pendant. Inscribed in graphite under image: edition number, title and series title (abbreviated), artist's signature, and date. Watermark: BFK Rives / France Edition: 23/100. W.H.C. Steiner Print Fund in honor of Victoria L.M. Paine and Michael J. Paine. Purchased from the artist October 2004. #2004.31 (no.1).
Subject(s)	African Meetinghouse (Boston, Mass.)--Pictorial works. Masks, African--Pictorial works.
Genre terms	Screen prints--United States--2000-2010.
Location/Call number	Prints and Photographs Dept. (Appointment required) * D U9 Jac.r.2002
Source	445_40.tif
Rights	Collection of the Boston Athenaeum. May not be reproduced or quoted without written permission. For more information, see http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/node/46