id:			324697
accession number:	2018.296
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.296
updated:		2022-07-16 09:00:30.150000

Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #11 (Bent Branches), 2017. Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2018.296

title:				Untitled #11 (Bent Branches)
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series:				Night Coming Tenderly, Black
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creation date:			2017
creation date earliest:		2017
creation date latest:		2017
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creditline:			Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	America, 21st century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953)  - artist

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measurements: 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.)
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edition of the work: 	edition of 6 + 2 artist's proofs

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus
	opening date:   2022-02-20T05:00:00
	<i>Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Dawoud Bey (the artist)
	date: 2017
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	Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
	date: 2018
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: December 3, 2018
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fun fact: 
This series was shot in Northeast Ohio at real sites used by the Underground Railroad and in landscapes typical of the region.

digital 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.”

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Key Jo. “Currents and Constellations: A universe of ideas.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine  </em>62, no. 1: 12-15.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 13; Mentioned: P. 12.
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