{"id":14046,"date":"2017-03-06T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14046"},"modified":"2017-05-22T11:31:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T10:31:04","slug":"ovia-idah","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ovia-idah\/","title":{"rendered":"OVIA Idah"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Birth: In 1908, in Oria. Died 1968. Training: Learned Benin-style wood and ivory carving, called &#8220;omada style&#8221; carving, while serving as a page under Oba Eweka II of Benin. Profile: Also known as Igbolovia (Igbinovia) Ida and Ovidah Ida; worked as carpenter and designer, Public Works Department, Lagos 1923-1947; teacher, King&#8217;s College, Lagos; art instructor, Benin Divisional Council Secondary Modern School, Benin City, 1947-1950; head, carving section, arts &#038; crafts school, Benin Divisional Council, until 1967; operated Olokun Gallery, Benin City, and trained artists; organized ebony carvers into the Carvers&#8217; Cooperative, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Benin City; worked in ebony, ivory, plastic, cement and wood; created terracotta and cement sculptures; influenced both Festus Idehen and Felix Eboigbe. Group Exhibitions Empire Exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland, 1938. Harmon Foundation, New York, USA, 1962, 1963 and 1964. &#8220;Contemporary African Art,&#8221;Camden ArtsCentre, London, August-September 1969. Commissions Clay and cement plaques, and sculptures, for the restoration of Oba&#8217;s Palace, Benin City, 1940s. Carved wooden doors, Benin District Council. Bibliography &#8220;Benin Carvings, Specimens of Mr. Erhabor&#8217;s Work,&#8221; Nigeria (Lagos) no. 14: 146- 148, June 1938. illus. Beier, Ulli. &#8220;Idah: An Original Bini Artist,&#8221; Nigeria Magazine (Lagos) no. 80: 4-16, March 1964. illus., port. [Reproductions of terracotta reliefs]. Black Orpheus (Ibadan) no. 17, June 1965. plates 1-8. Ben-Amos, Paula. Social Change in the Organization of Wood Carving in Benin City, Nigeria. PhD dissertation, Indiana University, 1971. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1971. 292pp. illus., bibliog. Dark, Philip J. C. An Introduction to Benin Art and Technology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. 114pp. illus. See pages 62, 106. Awoonor, Kofi. &#8220;Contemporary Art Forms,&#8221; pp. 337-346. In the author&#8217;s The Breast of Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara, New York, NOK, 1975. Bascom, William. &#8220;Changing African Art,&#8221; pp. 303-319. In: Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World, edited by Nelson H. H. Grabum, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1976. illus. [None by Idah]. Okpewho, Isidore. &#8220;Principles of Traditional African Art,&#8221; Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (New York) 35 (3): 301-314, spring 1977. Dickerson, Sara Jane Hollis. &#8220;Benin Artist Idah, Court Art and Personal Style,&#8221; [special issue of] Interdisciplinary Studies (New Orleans) 2 (2): 1-98, March 1979. illus., bibliog. Dickerson, Sara. &#8220;Continuity of Iconography in Benin Art,&#8221; pp. 20-24. In: Observations and Interpretations: 2000 Years of Nigerian Art, edited by John Povey and Arnold Rubin, Los Angeles, African Studies Center, UCLA, 1981. Peek, Philip. &#8220;Ovia Idah and Eture Egbede: Traditional Nigerian Artists,&#8221; African Arts (Los Angeles) 18 (2): 54-59, 102, February 1985. illus. (some color). Nevadomsky, Joseph. &#8216;The House That Idah Built,&#8221; African Arts (Los Angeles) 19 (2): 8, February 1986. Blackmun, Barbara Winston. &#8220;Oba&#8217;s Portraits in Benin,&#8221; African Arts (Los Angeles) 23 (3): 61-69, 102-104, July 1990. illus., notes, bibliog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14046","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14046"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}