For Your Names You Took Hope and Humble

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Carrie Mae Weems

Title

For Your Names You Took Hope and Humble

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1995

Medium

Chromogenic print, overlaid with text sandblasted in glass

Inscriptions

Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on backboard, upper right, in graphite: "A. P."

Dimensions

Image, diameter, sight: Diam.: 45.7 cm (18 in.); Window mat: 59.7 × 49.4 cm (23 9/16 × 19 1/2 in.); Frame: 67.8 × 57.6 × 2.6 cm (26 3/4 × 22 11/16 × 1 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund

Reference Number

1996.423

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