School Days: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Cover features and illustration of Stanley Clarke spray painting a musical score on the wall of a New York subway station. He is seen on the right side of the cover with the musical score in red trailing behind him in the middle of the image. Above the score on the left side of the image is a cropped sign, made of tiles, [5/TH/ST.], At the top of the image in black, block font is the artist name and album name [STANLEY CLARKE SCHOOL DAYS]. On the reverse of the cover are three (3) columns of text with the track listing, musicians assisting, and production information. At the top of the back cover in the center is a close-up of Stanley Clarke.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1976
• Recorded by: Stanley Clarke, American, born 1951
• Produced by: Nemperor Records, American, founded 1966
• Distributed by: Atlantic Records, American, founded 1947
• Illustrated by: Robert Giusti, Swiss American
• Type: record covers
• Type: long-playing records
• Medium: ink on cardboard and glue
• Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 12 3/8 x 1/8 in. (31.4 x 31.4 x 0.3 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Object number: 2013.160.3b
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Stanley Clarke
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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