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A poised, naturalistic male figure sits on a stool, holding an egg in his right hand, his left hand resting on his left knee. The head is round, almost egg-shaped with a high, sloping forehead rising from pronounced eyebrows. The eyes are almond-shaped, the nose long and slender, the mouth a small straignt line. The neck is long and ringed. The surface of the figure is smooth, carefully finished, golden brown in color, though worn or mottled in places. 
Osei Bonsu;Asante (Asante)
Display figure
1945 – 1955
Gift of Margaret H. and Albert J. Coudron
2001/2.33
This  stool features an elegantly carved standing female caryatid supporting the seat. It exhibits the characteristic hallmarks of a Southern Hemba style, which in turn was strongly influenced by the neighboring Luba. These traits include the broad, rounded forms of the sculpture, the disproportionately large head, the ovoid face with a subdued expression, a wide convex forehead, the brow ridge defined in relief, half-closed eyes, the elongated nose, the narrow mouth with clenched lips, the protruding abdomen with a pointed umbilicus, scarification patterns on the torso, and a multitude of sculpted bracelets upon both wrists.  Also emblematic of Southern Hemba sculptural forms is the elaborate pulled-back chignon hairstyle (<em>kibanda</em>), which forms a cruciform motif in the rear.  The figure also possesses conical breasts, short squat legs, and flat feet. The tips of the figure’s fingers symbolically carry the circular seat.
Hemba (Hemba (culture or style))
Chief's Stool
1915 – 1925
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern
2005/1.224

Eugène Devéria
Portrait of Henri Herz
1832
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.81
A nude woman sits on a stool, leaning against a wall, with legs crossed on the seat and hands resting on legs. The figure is truncated just above nose.
Philip Pearlstein (American (North American))
Girl on Stool
1971
Museum Purchase
1973/1.804
A studio image of artist Salvador Dali in a surrealistic scene. Dali jumps in the air as furniture hovers around him, and three cats fly into a stream of water that splashes across the scene.
Philippe Halsman (American (North American))
Dali Atomicus
1948
Museum Purchase
1978/2.30
Two stools centered in an interior setting with several bottles in the upper right corner.
Alberto Giacometti (Swiss)
The Two Stools (Les Deux Tabourets)
1955
Museum Purchase
1962/2.34
A photograph of a shoeshiner sitting outside of a bank decorated with large signs. He sits in a corner between the building and a subway entrance with his equipment in front of him.
Arthur Rothstein (American (North American))
Shoeshine Man, New York City
1937
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2015/2.108
Wooden stool with a circular base and four human figures supporting the upper portion. The figures have horizontal grooves decorating their wrists and ankles. The edge of the upper portion of the stool is decorated with incised diamond shapes. 
Stool
1901 – 1999
Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern
2005/1.240

Stool
Gift and partial purchase from the estate of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco
2017/1.698
With tiered base, curving supports, geometric carving and brass studs.
Congo (Republic of the Congo) (Congolese (Republic of the Congo culture))
Stool
Gift and partial purchase from the estate of Kurt Delbanco in honor of Nicholas Delbanco
2017/1.699
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