African art also inspired many 20th-century American artists. In 1902 American artist Meta Warrick Fuller created Talking Skull, a sculpture based on reliquary figures from the Kota of Gabon. More recently, American sculptor Martin Puryear borrowed the forms and traditional techniques of African basketry and carpentry, adapting them to the more formal and abstract aims of modern Western art. In the 1990s American artist Renée Stout based her sculptures on figures created by the Kongo people of central Africa.'
