Carrie Mae Weems
Girl evidently the man plans on staying

Girl evidently the man plans on staying

© Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Girl evidently the man plans on staying
Girl evidently the man plans on staying
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Girl evidently the man plans on staying
Date1987
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 7/8 × 14 15/16 in. (37.8 × 38 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (50.5 × 40.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern in honor of Jean Caslin and Michael DeVoll.
Object number91.1785
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Deftly
weaving together carefully composed images with colloquial writing, Carrie Mae
Weems inserts viewers into an engaging, ongoing narrative. Viewers peek through
the door to a tidy bedroom, its details ripe with suggestion. Atop a well-loved
quilt is the story’s trigger: “his hat was on my bed,” the text proclaims.
Weems’s narrative confronts the gender norms and prejudices bound to folklore,
common wisdom, jokes, and idiomatic expressions.




Provenance[P.P.O.W.—Pilkington-Olsoff Fine Arts, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: "Girl evidently the man plans on staying cause when I got home from work yesterday his hat was on my bed", in typeset in upper left area of image.
Signed in pencil in lower left border: "Carrie Mae Weems". Signed in pencil on verso sheet: "Carrie Mae Weems 1989-90 1/5".

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