Carrie Mae Weems

American (Portland, Oregon, 1953)

Boneyard, from the series Sea Islands

1992
photograph | gelatin silver prints
Not currently on view in the museum
Boneyard, from the series Sea Islands
60 in. x 40 in. (152.4 cm x 101.6 cm)
Acquired 1994
Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund: gift of Frances and John Bowes, Collectors Forum, Pam and Dick Kramlich, Leanne B. Roberts, Madeleine H. Russell, Judy C. Webb
© Carrie Mae Weems
94.178.A-D
Keywords

cemeteries, headstones, tombstones, graves, graveyards, text, grids, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, slavery, plantations


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