Art Images

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SFU Library's Art Images is a collection of online images documenting a broad range of art in support of teaching, learning, and research at SFU. Currently, the collection is composed of over 6000 images with an emphasis on the history of Western Art.

Access to the content is restricted to current SFU faculty, students, and staff.

SFU Library's Art Images is a collection of online images documenting a broad range of art in support of teaching, learning, and research at SFU. Currently, the collection is composed of over 6000 images with an emphasis on the history of Western Art.

Contributed by Simon Fraser University Library.

Copyright and Terms of use

  • Images are licensed for research and classroom use at SFU. See the rights statements in individual image records for other allowed uses (e.g. assignments, presentations, etc.). Images in this collection are licensed on behalf of members of the SFU community for educational, non-commercial, and personal use only.
  • See each item for more detailed Copyright and Terms of use information. 

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Figure: Court Official with Cross Pendant

Description: Edo, Court of Benin; Object Place: Nigeria, Guinea Coast

Figure: Equestrian Chief

Description: Yoruba, Owo group; Object Place: Nigeria, Guinea Coast

Figure: Female

Description: This young female figure represents an attendant of the iyoba, or mother of the king. The queen mother cared for young women who served at her court until they reached marriageable age. At that time, her son, the oba, could marry them or give them to impo

Figure: Female

Description: Object Place: Mali

Figure: Female (Nyeleni)

Description: Bamana; Object Place: Mali, Ségou region

Figure: Male

Description: The most distinctive subject rendered by Dogon sculptors is that of a single figure standing with raised arms. This posture has usually been interpreted as a gesture of prayer--an effort to link earth and heavens--and it has been suggested that it may rep

Figure: Male

Description: Object Place: Mali

Figure: Male Head

Description: Edo, Court of Benin; Object Place: Nigeria, Guinea Coast

Figure: Male Warrior

Description: Lower Niger Bronze Industry; Object Place: Nigeria, Guinea Coast. The term "Lower Niger Bronze Industry" has been used by art historians to classify ancient copper-alloy sculpture discovered in the area of the Niger Valley that could not be traced direct

Figure: Pair of Balafon Players

Description: Dogon; Object Place: Mali

Figure: Seated Chief Playing Thumb Piano (Mwanangana)

Description: Chokwe; Object Place: Angola

Figure: Seated Couple

Description: The virtually identical forms of the male and female protagonists in this visual commentary accentuate the parity of their subtly distinctive roles. The two figures share lucid, graphic, and repeated elongated vertical elements with only few differences.

Figure: Seated Male with Lance

Description: Bamana; Object Place: Mali, Bougouni or Dioila region