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Untitled #11 (Bent Branches)

Untitled #11 (Bent Branches)

2017
(American, b. 1953)
America, 21st century
gelatin silver print
Image: 121.9 x 149.9 cm (48 x 59 in.); Framed: 122.7 x 151.1 x 5.1 cm (48 5/16 x 59 1/2 x 2 in.)
Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2018.296
© Dawoud Bey
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This series was shot in Northeast Ohio at real sites used by the Underground Railroad and in landscapes typical of the region.

Description

Bey describes this series as “a visual reimagining of the movement of fugitive slaves through the Cleveland and Hudson, Ohio landscape as they approached Lake Erie and the final passage to freedom in Canada…These photographs seek to approximate the spatial and sensory experience of those moving furtively through the darkness, and the landscapes they encountered.”
  • 2017
    Dawoud Bey (the artist)
    2018
    Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
    December 3, 2018
    the Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Lee, Key Jo. “Currents and Constellations: A universe of ideas.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 1: 12-15. Reproduced: P. 13; Mentioned: P. 12.
  • Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).
  • {{cite web|title=Untitled #11 (Bent Branches)|url=false|author=Dawoud Bey|year=2017|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.296