Photograph of Etta Moten Barnett gazing at a painting: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Etta Moten Barnett gazing at a painting: Date: ca. 1960. Photograph by: Isaac Sutton, 1923 - 1995. Subject of: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a black and white photograph of Etta Moten Barnett gazing at a painting. Photographed from below, she has a monumental aspect. She is shown from the hips up, wearing a long sleeved white blouse with a brooch at the neckline and a grey straight skirt. On her head she wears an intricately wound headwrap with a detailed contracting dark/light pattern. Standing in a quarter-turn to the viewer she holds her left arm up in the arm and has her left hand resting at the back of the headwrap. Her gaze is to her right, at a painting on the wall of the bust of a woman wearing a similarly wound headwrap. The painting shows the woman from the neck up wearing the headwrap and a light-colored round-necked shirt against a plain background. The painting is framed. Next to the painting on the wall is a large map of Africa. The photographer’s stamp is on the back.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1960
- Photograph by: Isaac Sutton, 1923 - 1995
- Subject of: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
- Owned by: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 10 7/16 × 10 7/16 in. (26.5 × 26.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Africa
- Topic: Clothing and dress
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Topic: Women
- Object number: A2022.13.1.35.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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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: © Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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