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) title in original language: series: Night Coming Tenderly, Black series in original language: creation date: 2017 creation date earliest: 2017 creation date latest: 2017 current location: creditline: Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 21st century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: edition of 6 + 2 artist's proofs support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus opening date: 2022-02-20T05:00:00 Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Dawoud Bey (the artist) date: 2017 footnotes: citations: Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL date: 2018 footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art date: December 3, 2018 footnotes: citations: --- 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.” wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Key Jo. “Currents and Constellations: A universe of ideas.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 1: 12-15. page number: Reproduced: P. 13; Mentioned: P. 12. url: --- IMAGES