About This Artwork

Carrie Mae Weems
American, born 1953

Black and tanned your whipped wind of change howled low blowing itself-ha-smack into the middle of Ellington's orchestra Billie heard it too and cried strange fruit tears, 1995

Chromogenic print, overlaid with text sandblasted in glass
Image: 45.7 cm (diam.); overall: 59.7 x 49.4 cm
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, 1996.424

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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

AIC, "Crossing the Line: Photography Reconsidered," January 29-June 4, 2000 (David Travis)

Publication History

Smith, Cherise. 1999. “Fragmented Documents Works by Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and Willie Robert Middlebrook at The Art Institute of Chicago.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 24. no. 2. p. 244. fig. 1.