Photograph of Matt and Terri Lyne Carrington at Berklee College of Music: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph of Matt and Terri Lyne Carrington at the entrance of Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts.

The image depicts an adolescent Terri Lyne Carrington, with her father Matt, standing for their picture in front of the Corinthian style columns of the Berklee College of Music building, which would later become Terri Lyne’s alma mater. Matt Carrington wears a dark newsboy hat and six-button coat, his proper right arm around his daughter. Terri Lyne Carrington wears a bright wide-billed hat and a shearling lined coat.

On the white reverse of the photograph is an inscription in turquoise felt tip pen near the top, is: [Terri Carrington / Ebony 4-77 not used]. A blue ink stamp identifying the photographer, G. Marshall Wilson, is marked in the middle.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1977
• Photograph by: G. Marshall Wilson
• Subject of: Terri Lyne Carrington, American, born 1965
• Subject of: Matt Carrington, American
• Subject of: Berklee College of Music, American, founded 1945
• Type: black-and-white prints
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 6 × 9 in. (15.2 × 22.8 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.3 cm)
• Place captured: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Child musicians
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Fatherhood
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Music
• Object number: 2021.101.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Terri Lyne Carrington
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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