Gallery 276, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alter Gallery)
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Gallery 276, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alter Gallery)
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Part of a series the artist made in and around Cleveland, Ohio, this photograph contemplates the landscape navigated generations earlier by fugitives from slavery on the Underground Railroad. Cleveland was a final stop before they crossed Lake Erie to Canada and freedom.
The series title refers to the poem Dream Variations by Langston Hughes, an important touchstone for Bey’s project:
To fling my arms wideIn some place of the sun,To whirl and to danceTill the white day is done.Then rest at cool eveningBeneath a tall treeWhile night comes on gently,Dark like me— That is my dream!
To fling my arms wideIn the face of the sun,Dance! Whirl! Whirl!Till the quick day is done.Rest at pale evening . . .A tall, slim tree . . .Night coming tenderlyBlack like me.
Gallery 276, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alter Gallery)
| Title: | Untitled #2 (Trees and Farmhouse) From the series Night Coming Tenderly, Black |
| Date: | 2017 (negative); 2019 (print) |
| Artist: | Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953) |
| Medium: | Gelatin silver print |
| Dimensions: | Image: 44 × 54 11/16 inches (111.8 × 138.9 cm) Sheet: 48 1/8 × 59 1/8 inches (122.2 × 150.2 cm) |
| Classification: | Photographs |
| Credit Line: | Purchased with the Marion Stroud Fund for Contemporary Art on Paper, 2019 |
| Accession Number: | 2019-57-1 |
| Geography: | Photograph taken in Ohio, United States, North and Central America |
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Gallery 276, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alter Gallery)
Main Building