University Art Museum at New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico
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From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried Series
- Chromogenic color print with sand-blasted text on glass
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22.75 x 22.75 in
(57.79 x 57.79 cm)
- Carrie Mae Weems
Artist: Carrie Mae Weems x
A 3/4 portrait of a black male slave showing the whipping scars on the back. Photograph of a historic photo, enlarged and toned. Mat is black inside the frame.
Glass of the frame is sandblasted with text: "Black and tanned your whipped wind blowing itself - Wa - Smack into the middle of ellington's orchestra billie heard it too and cried strange fruit tears."
- Framed: 26.75 x 22.75 x 1 in (67.95 x 57.79 x 2.54 cm)
- Created: 1995
- Inventory Number: 1997.1.15
- Collections: Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, Paper Works