Carrie Mae Weems

Blue Black Boy
1987–1988

A triptych of framed images featuring the same portrait of a young boy in a cyanotype blue color. Each frame has a word at the bottom: "BLUE," "BLACK," and "BOY," respectively, from left to right. The background of each portrait has a patterned texture.

A triptych of framed images featuring the same portrait of a young boy in a cyanotype blue color. Each frame has a word at the bottom: "BLUE," "BLACK," and "BOY," respectively, from left to right. The background of each portrait has a patterned texture.

Not on view

Date
1987–1988

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Three gelatin silver prints with transfer type and frame

Dimensions
Overall: 16 7/8 × 49 1/2 × 1 1/2in. (42.9 × 125.7 × 3.8 cm)

Accession number
2001.257a-d

Series
Colored People

Edition
Exhibition print | Edition unknown, AP

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
©️ Carrie Mae Weems

API
artworks/15694

Exhibitions

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

June 26–Sept 22, 2002

Carrie Mae Weems
12 works in the collection

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