Film poster for Ray: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Black and white poster with a white and black silhouette of Jamie Foxx who portrayed Ray Charles. The right side of Foxx's face is toward the viewer. The silhouette takes up the majority of the poster. At the top is white text, centered above the silhouette [JAMIE FOXX]. On the PR shoulder of the silhouette is a signature in white [Ray]. Above the signature is gray text [A TAYLOR HACKFORD FILM]. Below the signatures is additional gray text with the tag line of the movie [THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF RAY CHARLES/A MAN WHO FOUGHT HARDER AND WENT FARTHER THAN ANYONE THOUGHT POSSIBLE.]. In the bottom fourth of the poster is the billing block in gray text.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2004
• Commissioned by: Universal Pictures, founded 1912
• Subject of: Jamie Foxx, American, born 1967
• Subject of: Ray Charles, American, 1930 - 2004
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 40 × 27 1/16 in. (101.6 × 68.7 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Object number: 2014.35.19
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Personal Collection of Bill Ivory Larson
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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