Archive
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Mentioned in ‘Primitive Art’
‘Primitive Art’ by Leonhard Adam, 1963 As a sculptor, the African has little or nothing to learn from the European. Pl. 40a shows a modern sculpture in iroko wood by B. C. Enwonwu, then a twenty-year-old student of Onitsha and Government College, Umuahia (Nigeria), who was described as the most sophisticated of the five artists
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Mentioned in Times article ‘Triumph of First Congress on African Culture’
The Times, Aug 13, 1962 The present generation of African artists had as its spokesmen two sculptors, Mr. Vincent Kofi from Ghana and Mr. Felix Idubor from Nigeria, and a painter, Mr. Selby Mvusi, who now teaches at the School of Fine Art in Kumasi.
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The Gods Became Less Demonic – And African Art Declined
San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, February 04, 1962
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The Art of African Sculpture: Black Hands on the Chisel
California Eagle, Los Angeles, Thursday, June 15, 1961 [reference to “Nigeria’s modernist Felix Idubor”]
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Art in Nigeria
Africa Quarterly April-June 1961: Vol 1 Iss 1 HARSIMRAN MALIK Art in Nigeria today is passing through a period of adaptation, of experimentation, of rediscovery. In the past, Nigeria’s greatest contributions to world culture were its arts of wood carving and bronze casting and masks – its traditional arts, which in the early twentieth century
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Work on cover of Foreign Service Journal
Foreign Service Journal 1961-05: Vol 38 Iss 5
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Mentions in ‘Muntu: An Outline of Neo-African Culture’
‘Muntu: An Outline of Neo-African culture by Janheinz Jahn Publication, 1961
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Mentions in ‘Art in Nigeria 1960’
“Art in Nigeria 1960” by Ulli Beier, Cambridge University Press, 1960
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Impressions of African Art
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Â Sunday, May 31, 1959
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Listed among men of stature in West Africa
‘Britain’s Purpose in Africa’ by Sir Kenneth Bradley, 1959
About
Felix Idubor (1928–1991) was a Nigerian sculptor from Benin City, a city with a rich history of artistic excellence. He was part of a young group of artists in the 1950s and 1960s who raised awareness of the artistic consciousness of African tradition in an emerging and nascent social milieu. He is sometimes considered one of the pioneers of Nigerian contemporary art. In 1966, he opened Nigeria’s first contemporary art gallery in Kakawa street, Lagos.
Adulee Moore (1) American collectors (2) British Council (2) British Royal Collection (7) Central Bank – Lagos (1) Central Bank of Benin – Benin City (1) Cocoa House – Ibaden (1) Commonwealth Exhibition – Edinburgh (1) Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery (1) Congress of African Culture – Salisbury now Harare Zimbabwe (1) DR and Mrs Jerry Wulk (1) European collectors (1) Exhibition Centre – Lagos (1) Governor General of Nigeria (2) House of Parliament – Lagos (2) Iaga Idungan (1) Independence Building – Lagos (3) International Meteorlogical Organization – London (1) International Telecommunications Building – Geneva (1) Munich University Institute of Art (1) Municipal Library – Lagos (1) National Gallery of Modern Art – Lagos (1) National Theatre – Lagos (1) Nigeria Exhibition Center (1) Nigeria House – London (2) Nigerian Electrical Power Authority boardroom (1) Nigerian Observer (1) Osagie Osifo – brother (2) Palace of the Oba of Lagos (2) Residence of the British High Commissioner – Lagos (1) Senate Building Lagos (1) State House – Benin City (1) The Cooperative Bank – Ibadan (5) The German-Africa Society (1) The Idubor Gallery of Art (1) The Imperial Institute (9) The National Hall – Lagos (4) UNESCO (7) United States Information Service (2) University of Benin Teaching Hospital (1) University of Lagos (1)