NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist received by Whitney Houston: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

NAACP award given to Whitney Houston in 1993 for "Outstanding Female Artist" for the soundtrack to the film "The Bodyguard." The award features a silver colored metal figure of a man kneeling with his arms overhead and looking upward at a globe he holds, similar to representations of the mythological character Atlas. The globe is oriented with the continent of Africa facing front. The figure is screwed from below to a two-tiered wooden platform painted black. A silver plate is nailed around the exterior side of the bottom tier and is engraved with text reading: 26th Annual NAACP Image Awards / 1993 / OUTSTANDING FEMALE ARTIST / WHITNEY HOUSTON / "THE BODYGUARD SOUNDTRACK".

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1993
• Issued by: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
• Owned by: Whitney Houston, American, 1963 - 2012
• Type: trophies (prizes)
• Medium: metal and wood
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 13 3/4 × 8 1/8 × 8 1/8 in. (34.9 × 20.6 × 20.6 cm)
• Place used: Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Popular music
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2014.161.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Whitney Houston
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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