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http://hdl.handle.net/10267/36486
Title: Poto-Poto School Painting
Abstract: Gouache on black paper. Depicts two boats on either side of a group of green trees. The boat on the left contains a figure wearing a yellow skirt and another wearing a white skirt. The boat on the right contains a figure wearing a red skirt and another wearing a white skirt. Signature of "GALLiN" in bottom right corner.
Description: Reverend William Pruitt (1911-1999), who served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo from the 1930s to 1978, collected a group of 37 paintings from artists at the Poto-Poto School, a small art school in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo that is still in operation today. In 1998, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. began an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by several children of missionaries from the time Pruitt was a missionary in the Congo. This collection of paintings was found in the Rhodes College collection in the summer of 2023. The paintings were digitized and cataloged in the Visual Resources Center during fall 2023.
Learn more about the William Pruitt investigation here:
https://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/12/16/pcusa-named-lawsuit-alleged-victim-sexual-abuse-mi/
https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/iarp/pdfs/iarp_final_report.pdf2023-01-01T00:00:00ZPoto-Poto School Painting
http://hdl.handle.net/10267/36489
Title: Poto-Poto School Painting
Abstract: Gouache on brown paper. Depicts three figures standing between two trees: one in a yellow skirt, one in a red skirt, and one in a white skirt. Signature of "Bola" in bottom right corner.
Description: Reverend William Pruitt (1911-1999), who served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo from the 1930s to 1978, collected a group of 37 paintings from artists at the Poto-Poto School, a small art school in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo that is still in operation today. In 1998, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. began an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by several children of missionaries from the time Pruitt was a missionary in the Congo. This collection of paintings was found in the Rhodes College collection in the summer of 2023. The paintings were digitized and cataloged in the Visual Resources Center during fall 2023.
Learn more about the William Pruitt investigation here:
https://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/12/16/pcusa-named-lawsuit-alleged-victim-sexual-abuse-mi/
https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/iarp/pdfs/iarp_final_report.pdf2023-01-01T00:00:00ZPoto-Poto School Painting
http://hdl.handle.net/10267/36490
Title: Poto-Poto School Painting
Abstract: Gouache on brown paper. Depicts three figures in three boats: one in a white skirt, one in a red skirt, and one in a yellow skirt. Signature of "Bola" in bottom right corner.
Description: Reverend William Pruitt (1911-1999), who served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo from the 1930s to 1978, collected a group of 37 paintings from artists at the Poto-Poto School, a small art school in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo that is still in operation today. In 1998, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. began an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by several children of missionaries from the time Pruitt was a missionary in the Congo. This collection of paintings was found in the Rhodes College collection in the summer of 2023. The paintings were digitized and cataloged in the Visual Resources Center during fall 2023.
Learn more about the William Pruitt investigation here:
https://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/12/16/pcusa-named-lawsuit-alleged-victim-sexual-abuse-mi/
https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/iarp/pdfs/iarp_final_report.pdf2023-01-01T00:00:00ZPoto-Poto School Painting
http://hdl.handle.net/10267/36488
Title: Poto-Poto School Painting
Abstract: Gouache on brown paper. Depicts two groups of three figures on either side of a green and black tree. In each group, there is a figure in a white skirt, another in a blue skirt, and another in a red skirt. Signature of "Inguila" in the bottom center underneath the trees.
Description: Reverend William Pruitt (1911-1999), who served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo from the 1930s to 1978, collected a group of 37 paintings from artists at the Poto-Poto School, a small art school in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo that is still in operation today. In 1998, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. began an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by several children of missionaries from the time Pruitt was a missionary in the Congo. This collection of paintings was found in the Rhodes College collection in the summer of 2023. The paintings were digitized and cataloged in the Visual Resources Center during fall 2023.
Learn more about the William Pruitt investigation here:
https://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/12/16/pcusa-named-lawsuit-alleged-victim-sexual-abuse-mi/
https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/iarp/pdfs/iarp_final_report.pdf2023-01-01T00:00:00Z