Sea Islands Series (Ebo Landing)
Artist
Carrie Mae Weems
(American, born 1953)
Date1992
MediumGelatin silver prints with text panel
DimensionsImage (each): 19 3/8 × 19 1/4 inches (49.21 × 48.9 cm)
Sheet (each): 19 13/16 × 19 5/8 inches (50.32 × 49.85 cm)
Mount (each): 19 13/16 × 19 5/8 inches (50.32 × 49.85 cm)
Sheet (each): 19 13/16 × 19 5/8 inches (50.32 × 49.85 cm)
Mount (each): 19 13/16 × 19 5/8 inches (50.32 × 49.85 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.173-175
SignedSigned on label attached to mount verso of photograph panel 1, lower left, white label with black pen: "Carrie M. Weems";
Signed on label attached to mount verso of text panel 2, lower left, white label with black pen: "Carrie M. Weems";
Signed on label attached to mount verso of photograph panel 3, lower left, white label with black pen: "Carrie M. Weems".
InscribedOn mount verso of photograph panel 1, lower left, white label with black type: "CARRIE MAE WEEMS / Sea Island Series 1992 / #3253 / 2 silver prints, 1 text panel / edition #4/10 / overall dimensions: 60x20" / each panel: 20x20" / panel 1 of 3 / [signature]";
On mount verso of text panel 2, lower left, white label with black type: "CARRIE MAE WEEMS / Sea Island Series 1992 / #3253 / 2 silver prints, 1 text panel / edition #4/10 / overall dimensions: 60x20" / each panel: 20x20" / panel 2 of 3 / [signature]";
On mount verso of photograph panel 3, lower left, white label with black type: "CARRIE MAE WEEMS / Sea Island Series 1992 / #3253 / 2 silver prints, 1 text panel / edition #4/10 / overall dimensions: 60x20" / each panel: 20x20" / panel 3 of 3 / [signature]".
MarkingsOn mount verso of panel 1, lower right, in pencil: "330-1-93 / WEEMS";
On mount verso of panel 3, lower right, in pencil: "330-1-93 (c) / Weems"
Edition/State/Proofed. 4/10
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DescriptionA triptych that includes two images of an island landscape with a text panel in the center. The images depict tall grasses lined with trees, some of which have fallen.Exhibition HistoryNew Frontiers: American Photography Since 1960. Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, November 5 - December 17, 1993, no cat.
Rotation 1. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 17 – October 25, 2007, no cat.
Rotation 24. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – November 12, 2017, no cat.In this work, Carrie Mae Weems unearths the historical resonance of the Sea Islands on the Georgia coast. Through words and pictures, Weems recounts the fierce resistance of the Ibo Africans whom captors brought to this country in chains in 1803. Her text gives these otherwise calm landscapes a tone of outrage, mourning, and commemoration.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1993;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Carrie Mae Weems
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