Artist Charles Searles traveled to Nigeria and Ghana in the early 1970s and the experience was transformative. He described feeling a unique sense of community and belonging. The shapes, patterns, and colors of Three Spirit Forms are inspired by the African art he saw there. You can see this painting and more in our exhibition, "Don't Feed the Art: Woodmere's Animal Menagerie," on view now. -- Image: Three Spirit Forms, 1979, by Charles Searles (Museum purchase, 2017) #WoodmereArt #DontFeedtheArt #CharlesSearles #PhillyArtist