All the Boys
| Artist | Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953) |
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| Title | All the Boys |
| Date | 2016–2017 |
| Medium | Color photolithograph on paper |
| Dimensions | Image (each): 20 1/2 × 15 5/8 in. (52.1 × 39.7 cm) Sheet: 27 1/2 × 38 3/4 in. (69.9 × 98.4 cm) Framed: 33 1/8 × 44 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (84.1 × 112.1 × 3.8 cm) |
| Credit Line | Museum purchase with funds from Burton and Suzanne Borgelt in honor of Linda Watson, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University. |
| Accession Number | 2018.34 |
| This artwork is currently off display. You may be able to see this artwork by filling out an art viewing room request. | |
A diptych in a dark bluish hue depicts a blurry, hooded figure facing forward on the left side. On the right side, the same figure stands in profile with the bill of a hat emerging from beneath the hood.
Carrie Mae Weems is one of the country’s most influential African American artists. For more than thirty years, she has created images that address issues of family, race, gender, cultural identity, and power in contemporary society. This print—the first work by Weems to enter our collection—shows a blurry, anonymous male figure in a hoodie from both a frontal and side view, like a nocturnal mugshot seen through a thermal-imaging camera. The work relates to Weems’s 2016 multi-media installation of the same title about police shootings of unarmed black men in the United States. In this image, the haunting apparition serves as a poignant reminder of these victims—whom the artist calls the “usual suspects.”
| Printer | Maurice Sanchez |
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2018, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, purchase from Segura Arts Studio, South Bend, IN
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"All the Boys | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2018.34