Traditional African sculpture from the inventory of Ron Atwood has been selected for exhibition at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum for African Art in New York, the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ron Atwood, Proprietor Ron Atwood, former African Editor, Doubleday & Co., first became fascinated with traditional African sculpture in 1962, during training for service as an English teacher in the Peace Corps. 

Mr. Atwood spent two years in the hinterland rainforest of Liberia, West Africa, from 1962 to 1964. He studied the masking traditions of the Krahn and Gio people and returned to the United States to complete advanced work at the African Studies Center of UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1968. 

From 1968 to 1969 he traveled throughout subsaharan Africa writing and directing on-location production of the international award winning film series, Africa Speaks, for Doubleday & Company's educational media division. After teaching African Studies and art at two University of California campuses, he opened his first gallery in San Francisco in 1972. 

Mr. Atwood now travels between the art centers of Europe and the United States as a private dealer in museum level sculpture. 

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