Blue Black Boy, from the "Colored People" series (Primary Title)

Carrie Mae Weems, American, born 1953 (Artist)

1990
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver prints toned blue; overmat, wood frame, Plexiglas with applied lettering
Place Made,United States
Framed (each): 16 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (42.86 × 42.86 cm)
91.50.1-3
Not on view
Purchased with funds from the Polaroid Foundation
Identity Shifts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, April 26 – July 27, 2014

Color!, Amon Carter Museum, Fort WOrth, TX, October 5, 2013 - January 5, 2014; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, January 19 - March 23, 2014

Generations: African American Art in the VMFA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, June 21 - November 30, 2003; Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA, September 9 - October 31, 2004

Picture This, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, March 8 - May 25, 1997
(P.P.O.W., New York) by 1991; Purchased with donated funds by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in May of 1991. [1]

[1] Accessioned May 15, 1991. See VMFA Curatorial file.
© Carrie Mae Weems

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