Johnny Cash: Museum Object and Cultural History
Johnny Cash: date printed: 2016. depicted (sitter): Cash, Johnny. maker: Marshall, Jim.
The object in the museum catalogue
Black and white photograph by Jim Marshall; portrait of Johnny Cash; man in a white, collared button down shirt and long leather trench coat at center of image holding a case in his right hand while his left hand is in his pants pocket; stone buildings of Folsom Prison behind him. This photograph was used as the central image in Shepard Fairey's serigraph poster, Mass Incarceration in his American Civics series.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date printed: 2016
- depicted (sitter): Cash, Johnny
- maker: Marshall, Jim
- Object Name: photograph
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 24 in x 20 in; 60.96 cm x 50.8 cm
- Subject: Portraits
- Subject: Men
- Subject: Musicians
- ID Number: 2016.0376.0001
- accession number: 2016.0376
- catalog number: 2016.0376.0001
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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