The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers (The Little Bird)
2021
(American, b. 1973)
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Sheet: 104.8 x 94 cm (41 1/4 x 37 in.)
© Amy Sherald
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The title of this print references an 1891 verse by American poet Emily Dickinson.Description
Amy Sherald is known for her distinctive style of portraiture that presents Black figures with grisaille (or gray) skin tones, inviting consideration of skin as a signifier. This print, the second made by the artist, reinterprets a painting of the same title. Both depict dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, founded in 1958 to combine modern dance and African American culture. The subject appears with a casual pose and assertive gaze that align with the artist’s goal, in her words, to “paint black people just being people.”- 2021(Hauser & Wirth, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2021-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Women in Print: Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-June 19, 2022).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.173