Not Manet's Type
Carrie Mae Weems, American, born 1953
2001
Offset photolithograph on paper
28/40
Image: 17 × 17 in. (43.2 × 43.2 cm)
Sheet: 40 1/8 × 20 in. (101.9 × 50.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Olivia H. Parker and John O. Parker '58 Acquisition Fund
© Carrie Mae Weems
PR.2002.17.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Text, printed, lower center: "IT WAS CLEAR, / I WAS NOT MANET'S TYPE / PICASSO -- WHO HAD A WAY / WITH WOMEN -- ONLY USED ME / & DUCHAMP NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED ME"; signed, in graphite, lower right: Carrie M Weems. 2001; numbered, in graphite, lower left: 28/40| Embossed, lower right: [Publisher's chop, bird in circle]
Course History
SOCY 7.2, Race and Ethnicity, Emily Walton, Spring 2014
SOCY 7.1, Race and Ethnicity, Emily Walton, Winter 2015
AAAS 67.5, GEOG 21.01, Black Consciousness and Black Feminisms, Abigail Neely, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 7, Laura Tepper and Katherine Grayson, Class of 2002, Senior Interns, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 27-October 18, 2002.
A Space for Dialogue 88, Still We Rise, Women of Color Existence / Resistance in Contemporary Art, Taylor Payer, Class of 2015, Kathryn Conroy Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 30 -July 12, 2015.
Constructing Gender: Works from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, 1500 to the Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 28-April 22, 2012.
Loew Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-March 9, 2003.
Making Connections at the Hood Museum of Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 20-April 14, 2009.
No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in conjunction with the Humanities Institute, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6-December 9, 2007.
Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.
Virtual Space for Dialogue: 2017, Vanity: Disrupting The Female Nude, Jessica King Fredel, Class of 2017, Levinson Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.jkingfredel.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 247, figure 7.1.
Taylor Payer, A Space for Diagolgue 88, Still We Rise, Women of Color Esistence / Resistance in Contemporary Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2015, checklist no. 3.
Provenance
Charles M. Young, Fine Prints & Drawings, Glastonbury, Connecticut; sold to present collection, 2002.
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