by artists such as Arshile Gorky and John Graham with
highly expressive African power figures from the Congo-
lese Songye and Kongo peoples. Stone collected Songye
statues in great depth. Art historian Michael Kan writes,
"I believe there was a special kinship between Allan and
Songye statues…More than anything, Allan loved cre-
ativity and he found it in the boundless imagination of
Songye artists. Every Songye figure he owned was dif-
ferent in some way and he could not let go until he had
fathomed the soul of each one of them."
Songye Power Statue, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Name-piece of the Master of the Bulbous Copper Eyes
HYLAND
