Carrie Mae Weems
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried
1994
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Carrie Mae Weems
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried
1994
Physical Qualities
Chromogenic prints and sand-blasted glass, Framed (each): 1105 x 851 mm. (43 1/2 x 33 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Collectors Circle Fund for Art by African Americans, and Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Fund
Object Number
2002.30a-b
Work is comprised of two framed photographs; each image with sand-blasted text on glass: From Here I Saw What Happened (left panel) / and I Cried (right panel).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2002; from P.P.O.W., New York
"Hidden Witness: African Americans in Early Photography and Carrie Mae Weems Reacts to Hidden Witness," J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California, June 1995.
Thomas Piche, Jr., "Recent Work: Carrie Mae Weems, 1992-1998," The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, September 26, 1998 - February 14, 1999.
"Black Womanhood: Image, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, April 1-August 10, 2008; circulated to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, September 10-December 10, 2008, San Diego Museumof Art, January 1-March 17, 2009.
Kristen Hileman, BMA. "Seeing now: Photography Since 1960," February 20-May 15, 2011.
Thomas Piche, Jr., "Recent Work: Carrie Mae Weems, 1992-1998," The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, September 26, 1998 - February 14, 1999.
"Black Womanhood: Image, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, April 1-August 10, 2008; circulated to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, September 10-December 10, 2008, San Diego Museumof Art, January 1-March 17, 2009.
Kristen Hileman, BMA. "Seeing now: Photography Since 1960," February 20-May 15, 2011.
Lane Barden, 'Hidden Witness' and 'Carrie Mae Weems Reacts to Hidden Witness' at J. Paul Getty Museum, Artweek, V. 26 (June 1995): 25-26.
Susan Canning, 'Carrie Mae Weems: Projects; From Here I saw What Happened and I Cried,' Art Papers, V. 20 (Mar./Apr. 1996).
Grady T. Turner, 'Carrie Mae Weems at P.P.O.W.,' Art in America, V.84 (June 1996):103.
Cherise Smith, 'Fragmented Documents,' Museum Studies, V. 24, No. 2 (1999): 244-59.
Ernest Larsen, 'Between Worlds,' Art in America, V. 87, No. 5 (May 1999):122-9.
Helen Molesworth, BMA Today, 'New On View,' September/October 2002, p. 8.
Barbara Thompson, ed., "Black Womanhood: Image, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," Dartmouth: Hood Museum, 2008, pl. 127, p. 350.
Barbara Thompson, ed., "Black Womanhood: Image, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," exh. cat. Hood Museum, Dartmouth College and tour, 2008, pl. 127, p. 350.
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