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Senufo Pulley with Bird Head Finial
This a well worn figurative pulley from the estate of Catherine Cline (née Crone, 1935-2020). Cline began collecting African art in the early 1960s in New York City through a friend, Thomas McNemar, then freshly back in the United States from years in Cote d’Ivoire. McNemar’s tenure in West Africa had been devoted to field collecting. His specialty was heddle pulleys, of which he amassed a collection of several hundred, in addition to the ones he sold to the likes of JJ Klejman, Julius Carlebach and, indirectly, Harold Rome. A graduate of the University of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology, Cline began her career as a costume designer for theater before refocusing her energies as a fiber and book artist. She was an avid collector of small, mostly utilitarian objects of exceptional form. Cline and McNemar remained in touch at least through the 2000s, when both were still occasional clients of mine.
This example was acquired by Cline directly from McNemar in the early 1960s. Its tippy original base, fabricated by a brother of Thomas McNemar, has been replaced. Modestly priced at only $220.
7″
