Marquise Foster: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A color photographic print portrait of fashion designer Marquise Foster captured in a look he wore while walking the All American Runway category at a ball in Philadelphia in 2017. Foster is pictured standing center frame against a dark grey background. He wears a red knit suit jacket and pants with a black, grey, and white plaid pattern. Woven black leather bracers cover his forearms. He wears a tall, black velvet top hat and has a black star painted around his proper right eye. He stands looking straight ahead at the camera, his hands by his sides. There are no inscriptions, front or back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2017
• Photograph by: Gerard H. Gaskin, Trinidadian American, born 1965
• Subject of: Marquise Foster, American, born 1989
• Printed by: Light Work, American, founded 1973
• Type: portraits
• Type: inkjet prints
• Medium: ink on Canson Baryta photographique paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet) : 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Image) : 19 × 12 5/8 in. (48.3 × 32.1 cm)
• Place captured: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Design
• Topic: Fashion
• Topic: Fashion design
• Topic: Gender
• Topic: Identity
• Object number: 2019.71.6
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Gerard Gaskin Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.