Photograph of Jimi Hendrix playing with other musicians in a recording studio: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Jimi Hendrix playing with other musicians in a recording studio: Date: ca. 1965. Subject of: Jimi Hendrix, American, 1942 - 1970. Subject of: Curtis Knight, American, 1929 - 1999.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a color photograph of Jimi Hendrix playing with other musicians in a recording studio. In the image Jimi Hendrix is seated in the right hand corner holding a red electric guitar on his lap. Wearing a long sleeve black shirt with edging on the collar, he is leaning over to his right towards a second musician seated next to him. He has a microphone stand in front of him. The musician seated next to Jimi Hendrix wars a white button down shirt and a black hat. Standing behind him is a man in a black and white plaid tee-shirt. He is standing in a quarter turn to the viewer and smoking a cigarette. Standing next to him are two women. One woman is wearing a knee-length brown fur coat, while the other wears a white sleeveless sheath dress. Standing behind Jimi Hendrix is a fifth man wearing a brown button down shirt and matching pants. He is standing with his hands on his hips and gazing at the viewer.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1965
- Subject of: Jimi Hendrix, American, 1942 - 1970
- Subject of: Curtis Knight, American, 1929 - 1999
- Subject of: Ray Lucas, American, 1939 - 2017
- Subject of: Ed "Bugs" Gregory, American
- Subject of: Rosslyn Morris
- Subject of: Toni Gregory
- Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Type: chromogenic color prints
- Medium: ink on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 4 1/2 × 6 7/16 in. (11.5 × 16.3 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 5 × 7 5/16 in. (12.7 × 18.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Rhythm and blues (Music)
- Topic: Rock and roll (Music)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2021.102.4.2
- 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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