The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
I've Been Good to Me
2015
(American, b. 1971)
printer
publisher
(American, 2010-)
Image: 130.5 x 103 cm (51 3/8 x 40 9/16 in.); Sheet: 143.5 x 114.3 cm (56 1/2 x 45 in.)
© Mickalene Thomas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Mickalene Thomas’s interest in Jet and African American fashion publications was influenced by her mother, who dreamed of becoming a model herself.Description
Mickalene Thomas uses collage to combine art historical and pop cultural references and question societal standards for Black femininity. Combining photography and printmaking, Thomas cultivates the aesthetic of publications such as Jet from the 1960s through 80s. This work features a woman who confidently adapts a pose from Impressionist painter Edouard Manet’s 1862 canvas Luncheon on the Grass. Each element of the collage was individually printed and hand assembled in a process that took over two years to complete.- 2020(Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2020-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- "Preview: women in print recent acquisitions." Printmaking Today 30, no.120 (Winter 2021): 46. reproduction p.46
- Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-June 19, 2022).
- {{cite web|title=I've Been Good to Me|url=false|author=Mickalene Thomas, Brand X, Benefit Print Project|year=2015|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.226