The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 24, 2024

Take My Hand

Take My Hand

2018
(American, b. 1992)
America, 21st century
inkjet print
Image: 126.7 x 84.6 cm (49 7/8 x 33 5/16 in.); Paper: 131.5 x 89.5 cm (51 3/4 x 35 1/4 in.)
L. E. Holden Fund 2020.281
© D’Angelo Lovell Williams
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

D’Angelo Lovell Williams believes that “discovering the variations of intimacy is important for Black and queer people because that looks so different for many of us.”

Description

Touch—black flesh meeting black flesh—is a central theme in Lovell Williams’s work. Here, a pair of male arms reaches from outside the frame to take hold of another man. While contact is established and cherished—their hands clasp each other—the work is also about self-love. Close looking reveals that the hand caressing the face is the man’s own.
  • D'Angelo Lovell Williams (the artist) [1992-]
    ?-2020
    (Higher Pictures Generation, New York, NY)
    December 7, 2020
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Tannenbaum, Barbara. “From Long Shot to Close-up: A brief history of the photography collection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 30-33. Reproduced: P. 32.
  • {{cite web|title=Take My Hand|url=false|author=D'Angelo Lovell Williams|year=2018|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.281