Pretty Kitty; Aunt Mina's Cooking the Sirup: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pretty Kitty; Aunt Mina's Cooking the Sirup: recording date: 1946. recording artist: Josef Marais and his Bushveld Band. recording artist: Marais, Miranda.
The object in the museum catalogue
side 1: Josef Marais and his Bushveld Band with Miranda. Pretty Kitty; side 2: Josef Marais and his Bushveld Band. Aunt Mina's Cooking the Sirup (Decca 23690), from the album Songs of the South African Veld (Decca A-471). 78 rpm.
The cover art for this album was made by Canadian-American commercial artist, fashion illustrator and graphic artist Jean Baird Buckley (1916-2015). Baird was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and as a child moved with her family to Brooklyn, New York. Baird graduated from Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, majoring in art. Subsequently, she attended Pratt Institute for two years. Baird began her career as a staff artist for Montgomery Ward, and afterwards worked as a fashion illustrator for several New York department stores. She worked as a graphic designer for Hearst Publications and then as an art director for Abbot Kimble Agency. Before her marriage to Frank Buckley in 1948, Baird designed album covers for Decca Records. Later in her career Baird Buckley studied at the Art Students League in New York and as a thriving artist her work was featured in over 10 public exhibitions. For 20 years Baird Buckley was an instructor in tonal drawing and oil painting at the Somerset Art Association in Bernardsville, New Jersey.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1946
- recording artist: Josef Marais and his Bushveld Band
- recording artist: Marais, Miranda
- manufacturer: Decca
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York
- ID Number: 1979.1023.121
- accession number: 1979.1023
- maker number: A-471
- maker number: 23690
- catalog number: 1979.1023.121
- Credit Line: Gift of Asbeth Lee and Jack M. Eichner
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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