Museum Exhibition
Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black
Art Institute of Chicago
January 11, 2019 – April 14, 2019
Dawoud Bey’s latest body of work is a series of black-and-white photographs that reimagine sites along the last stages of the Underground Railroad.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
George N. Barnard
Savannah River, near Savannah, GA
1866
Albumen print, plate 47 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866)
Image/paper: 25.6 × 36 cm (10 1/8 × 14 3/16 in.); Album page: 41 × 50.7 cm (16 3/16 × 20 in.)
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Alfred Stieglitz
Lake George from the Hill
1932
Gelatin silver print
Image/paper/first mount: 18.9 × 23.8 cm (7 1/2 × 9 3/8 in.); Second mount: 51.4 × 45.1 cm (20 1/4 × 17 13/16 in.)
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Alfred Stieglitz
Hedge and Grasses - Lake George
1933
Gelatin silver print
Image/paper/first mount: 18.6 × 23.8 cm (7 3/8 × 9 3/8 in.); Second mount: 52.1 × 41.3 cm (20 9/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
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Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent
1927
Gelatin silver print
Image/paper/first mount: 8.9 × 11.6 cm (3 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Second mount: 31.6 × 25.5 cm (12 1/2 × 10 1/16 in.)
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John Reekie
Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia
March 1864
Albumen print, pl. 87 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)
Image/paper: 17.2 × 22.2 cm (6 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Album page: 31.1 × 44.1 cm (12 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.)
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Samuel J. Miller
Frederick Douglass
1847-52
Daguerreotype
14 × 10.6 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/8 in., plate); 12.1 × 8.8 cm (4 3/4 × 3 1/2 in., mat opening); 15.2 × 12 × 1.4 cm (6 × 4 3/4 × 1/2 in., plate in closed case); 15.2 × 24 × 2 cm (6 × 9 1/2 × 3/4 in., plate in open case)
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Timothy O'Sullivan
Interior of Breastworks on Round Top, Gettysburg
July 1863
Albumen print, pl. 38 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
Image/paper: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 31.1 × 44.6 cm (12 1/4 × 17 9/16 in.)
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