Photograph of Matt and Terri Lyne Carrington performing together: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Matt and Terri Lyne Carrington performing together: Date: 1977. Photograph by: G. Marshall Wilson. Subject of: Terri Lyne Carrington, American, born 1965.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph of Matt and Terri Lyne Carrington in performance on their instruments.
Captured up close, a young Terri Lyne Carrington plays the drums with her father, Matt, who plays the saxophone behind her. Terri Lyne wears a collared long sleeve plaid dress; Matt wears a long sleeve polka dot shirt.
On the white reverse of the photograph is an inscription in turquoise felt tip pen near the top, is: [Matt Carrington Saxophone, Terri Carrington / Ebony 4-77 not used]. A black ink stamp identifying the photographer, G. Marshall Wilson, is marked in 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
- Type: black-and-white prints
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin and photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 6 × 9 in. (15.2 × 22.9 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
- Place captured: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Child musicians
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Fatherhood
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Music
- Object number: 2021.101.5
- 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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