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Light and the Swamp

Portfolio TitleIn This Here Place
Artist Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953)
Date2019
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 17 1/2 × 21 13/16 inches (44.45 × 55.4 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 23 13/16 inches (50.48 × 60.48 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Beckett Art Purchases Fund in memory of Samuel and Ethel Beckett
Object number2023.3.9
SignedOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "DB"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "9/10"
Edition/State/Proofed. 9/10 + 2 A.P.s
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of a forested wetland. Bushes and shrubs fill the top of the frame and sections of light illuminate the water.Provenance

Dawoud Bey, Chicago, IL;

Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2021;

Purchased from Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2023.

Copyright© Dawoud Bey
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2019
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Field and Tree Underbrush
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Sugarcane I
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Tree and Cabin
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Overgrowth and Fence
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Conjoined Trees and Field
Dawoud Bey
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