Untitled, 1996, printed 2020

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Medium

7 inkjet prints with sandblasted text on glass in wood frames

Dimensions

image/sheet (each): 76.2 × 58.42 cm (30 × 23 in.)

framed (each): 83.03 × 67.79 × 2.86 cm (32 11/16 × 26 11/16 × 1 1/8 in.)
overall (installed): 83.03 × 474.5 × 2.86 cm (32 11/16 × 186 13/16 × 1 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2020.96.1.a-g

Artists / Makers

Carrie Mae Weems (artist) American, born 1953

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Inscription

(first panel): center etched in glass: Squared-toed and flat-footed / we came walking / out of the wilderness / in twos & fours / heading north / toward industry / toward hope; on verso, lower left Mark Glista Frames stamp in red ink; Jack Shainman Gallery label lower right in black ink
(second panel): across recto etched in glass: [sheet music]; on verso, lower left Mark Glista Frames stamp in red ink; Jack Shainman Gallery label lower right in black ink
(third panel): center etched in glass: Guarded by Angels of Mercy / we cake-walked to Mood Indigo / into Shy-Town--The Windy City--Chicago; on verso, lower left Mark Glista Frames stamp in red ink; Jack Shainman Gallery label lower right in black ink
(fourth panel): center etched in glass: Jet Black or Indian Red / our scale of values differs / from that of the world from / which we have been excluded; on verso, lower left Mark Glista Frames stamp in red ink; Jack Shainman Gallery label lower right in black ink
(fifth panel): center etched in glass: Arriving in Bronzeville / we became killers of sheep / men of letters, women of steel; on verso, lower left Mark Glista Frames stamp in red ink; Jack Shainman Gallery label lower right in black ink
(sixth panel): across recto etched in glass: [sheet music]; on verso, lower left Mark Glista Frames stamp in red ink; Jack Shainman Gallery label lower right in black ink
(seventh panel): center etched in glass: Once out of the storm / came the act of naming / our voices crackling / with resistance / rose from deep within / and bid us rise / & stake our claim / block by block; on verso, lower left Mark Glista Frames stamp in red ink; Jack Shainman Gallery label lower right in black ink

Provenance

Carrie Mae Weems, Syracuse, NY; NGA purchase (through Jack Shainman Gallery, New York), 2020.

Associated Names

Jack Shainman Gallery

Exhibition History

2021: Conversations: Carrie Mae Weems and The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, National Gallery of Art, April 6, 2021-February 24, 2023