id:			518340
accession number:	2022.96
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.96
updated:		2023-05-16 11:14:39.464000

I am Black, I am Black, I am Dangerously Black, 1973. Camille Billops (American, b. 1939). Etching and aquatint with chine collé on Arches wove paper; platemark: 30.1 x 43 cm (11 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.); sheet: 56.5 x 76 cm (22 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund 2022.96

title:				I am Black, I am Black, I am Dangerously Black
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creation date:			1973
creation date earliest:		1973
creation date latest:		1973
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creditline:			Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund
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culture:	
technique:	etching and aquatint with chine collé on Arches wove paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Camille Billops (American, b. 1939)  - artist
American sculptor, painter, and filmmaker, born 1939
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measurements: Platemark: 30.1 x 43 cm (11 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 56.5 x 76 cm (22 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.)
state of the work:	state IV/IV
edition of the work: 	Edition of 20

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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right: C. Billops 1973
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	inscription:	Inscribed, in graphite, lower margin: 15/20 4th state Chien Collette I am Black, I am Black, I am Dangerously Black
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	inscription:	Watermark: Arches
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Studio of the artist
	date: 1969-2019
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	Estate of the artist
	date: 2019–22
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	(Ryan/Lee Gallery, New York, NY), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2022
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 12, 2022-
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fun fact:
Camille Billops was one of many artists who worked with master printer Robert Blackburn in his New York print shop. She trained there with artist Romare Bearden the year this print was made.

digital description:
This print is one of many works in which Camille Billops explored the experiences and intersections of Blackness and womanhood. A nude woman appears in an imaginary landscape, evoking the long tradition of this subject throughout art history, but with a geometricized style meant to reference artworks encountered during the artist's travels throughout Africa several years before. Its title suggests Billops’s frustration with power struggles encountered while negotiating a place within the New York art world of the 1960s and '70s.

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