Carrie Mae Weems
The Shape of Things (female) (from Africa)
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October 17, 05:16 PM GMT
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Carrie Mae Weems
b. 1953
The Shape of Things (female) (from Africa)
platinum print, signed 'Weems' and inscribed 'For George from Carrie with love 2006' in ink on the reverse of the mat, framed, an Edgewood Gallery, Syracuse, label on the reverse
image: 14¾ by 14¾ in. (37.5 by 37.5 cm.)
frame: 21¾ by 21¾ in. (55.2 by 55.2 cm.)
Executed in 1993, printed in 2006.
Gift of the photographer
Private Collection
By descent to the present owner
Projects 52: Carrie Mae Weems (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), unpaginated exhibition guide
Robert Hirsch, Seizing the Light: A History of Photography (Boston, 2000), cover
Quentin Bajac, The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016), p. 31
