Anne Eisner
Mbuti Exhibit Opens at Harvard
Christie McDonald, who edited a book on the American artist Anne Eisner and her paintings of the Mbuti, has helped produce an exhibition of Eisner’s works that opened on Monday at Harvard’s Houghton Library. The book, and a still earlier journal article by Eisner, have both been reviewed in this website. The news release from […]
Anne Eisner Paintings and Mbuti Art [book review]
The paintings by Anne Eisner at Epulu as well as the bark-cloth paintings of the local Mbuti provide insights into the Ituri Forest world of the Congo Pygmies after World War II. A new art book, Images of Congo: Anne Eisner’s Art and Ethnography, 1946-1958, explores the human relationships and artistic achievements in the village […]
The Mbuti and Their Neighbors: Differing Interpretations [journal article review]
In 1946 Anne Eisner, a promising New York painter, married Patrick Putnam and followed him to the Ituri forest of the Belgian Congo to live with his African wives. An amateur anthropologist seven years older than she was, Putnam soon became physically and mentally ill, so Eisner cared for him while he degenerated and finally […]
