Lyle Ashton Harris, Billie #21, 2002. Dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid), sheet: 33 3/4 × 22 1/16 in. (85.7 × 56 cm) Image: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2002.563
Not on view
Date
2002
Classification
Photographs
Medium
Dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid)
Dimensions
Sheet: 33 3/4 × 22 1/16 in. (85.7 × 56 cm)
Image: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Accession number
2002.563
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee
Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate
Exhibitions
Installation photography
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Installation view of Edges of Ailey (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 25, 2024-February 9, 2025). From left to right: Romare Bearden, “Star (Star from the Heavens)” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Archibald John Motley Jr., Gettin’ Religion, 1948; Roy DeCarava, Coltrane and Elvin, 1960; Roy DeCarava, Elvin Jones, 1961; Lyle Ashton Harris, Billie #21, 2002; Hale Aspacio Woodruff, Blind Musician, 1935/1998; Norman Lewis, Jazz, 1943–44; Gordon Parks, Music–That Lordly Power, 1993; Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Race Woman Series #7, c. 1990s; Terry Adkins, Other Bloods (from The Principalities), 2012; Bill Traylor, Untitled (Man in a Blue House), date unknown; Ralph Lemon, Bongos and Djembe, 1999; Ralph Lemon, Untitled (On Black music), 2001-07; Ralph Lemon, Untitled (Miles Davis), 2006; Mickalene Thomas, Katherine Dunham: Revelation, 2024. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition Edges of Ailey
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Installation view of Edges of Ailey (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 25, 2024-February 9, 2025). From left to right: Romare Bearden, “The Buzzard and the Snake (The Conjur Woman)” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden, “Earth and the Magic Drummer” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden, “The Swamp Witch, Blue-Green Lights and Conjur Woman” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden, “The Conjur Woman” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden, “Star (Star from the Heavens)” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden, The Magic Root (Spotted Deer and the Father)” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden, “Past-Present-Future and Beautiful Dreams” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden, “Wisdom” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden “The Emperor of the Golden Trumpet” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden, “All Come Back” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Romare Bearden, “All Come Back” from the Bayou Fever series, 1979; Nelson Breen, Excerpts from Bearden Plays Bearden, 1980; DeCarava, Coltrane and Elvin, 1960; Roy DeCarava, Elvin Jones, 1961; Lyle Ashton Harris, Billie #21, 2002; Hale Aspacio Woodruff, Blind Musician, 1935/1998; Norman Lewis, Jazz, 1943–44; Gordon Parks, Music–That Lordly Power, 1993. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
From the exhibition Edges of Ailey