The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Was Blind, But Now I See (Granny)
2019
(American, b. 1992)
Image: 50.8 x 76.4 cm (20 x 30 1/16 in.); Paper: 55.6 x 81.3 cm (21 7/8 x 32 in.)
L. E. Holden Fund 2020.282
© D’Angelo Lovell Williams
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
D’Angelo Lovell Williams says that his pictures “are the questions, not the answers to them.”Description
D’Angelo Lovell William’s grandmother was resuscitated after 10 minutes in cardiac arrest but was left blind and could neither talk nor walk as a result. Over the next 12 years she regained those abilities, an experience that led her to a spiritual rebirth. The gesture of her hand over the artist’s face in the image suggests her absorbing something that has been seen or lived by her grandson. Touch—Black flesh meeting Black flesh—is a central theme in Lovell Williams’s work.- D'Angelo Lovell Williams (the artist) [1992-]?-2020(Higher Pictures Generation, New York, NY)December 7, 2020The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Picturing Motherhood Now. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2021-March 13, 2022).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.282