A small creek, visible from the middle ground to the foreground, swoops gently down the center of the frame below an overcast sky . Overgrown banks create a jumble in the lower half of the image. Near the top of the image are trees silhouetted against the sky, many with weeping branches. The outline of a house is visible on the upper right against the sky. One from a portfolio of ten photographs of houses amongst trees and foliage, processed so that they are very dark and the details of the images are difficult to discern.
Notes:
Edition 7/10 + 2 AP A portfolio of ten photographs of houses amongst trees and foliage, processed so that they are very dark and the details of the images are difficult to discern.
Cite As:
Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953), Night Coming Tenderly, Black, 2018. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 50.8 × 61 cm. Acquired through the Nancy Horton Bartels, Class of 1948, Endowment, TR10122.001–.013.
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