After Manet

2002, printed 2015

Carrie Mae Weems

Associated Names
Carrie Mae Weems

Artist, American, born 1953

The artwork is a circular, sepia-toned photograph featuring four young girls. The girl in the foreground is lying on her side, resting on her elbow, and gazing directly at the viewer. She has her hair styled in a bun with a flower accessory and is wearing a floral-patterned dress. Behind her, another girl is leaning on her shoulder, with her head resting on her arm, her hair adorned with flowers. Two more girls are positioned behind them, sitting upright, with one looking directly at the camera and the other gazing to the side. Both have floral accessories in their hair and are dressed in light-colored dresses. The background consists of dense foliage.

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Video:  Women Behind the Camera: Carrie Mae Weems

On September 12, 2015, Carrie Mae Weems discussed her artistic process, including her attempts to make “the invisible visible” by focusing on individuals and groups of people often left out of the historical record.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carrie Mae Weems, New York; NGA purchase (through Jack Shainman Gallery, New York), 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015, unnumbered catalogue.

2020

  • Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2020 - 2021, unnumbered catalogue.

Wikidata ID

Q64145708

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