Image of Cab Calloway performing in a production of Porgy & Bess: Museum Object and Cultural History
Image of Cab Calloway performing in a production of Porgy & Bess: Date: 1952 - 1956. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
The object in the museum catalogue
B & W photograph of Cab Calloway performing in a production of Porgy and Bess as the character Sportin' Life. Calloway is depicted in the center of the image, wearing a white suit and is holding a white hat in his proper right hand. His mouth is open in song and he is looking down where several men kneeling in front of him appear to be gambling. Behind him is a woman in an apron standing on the porch of a house. There are no marks or inscriptions, front or back.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1952 - 1956
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 15/16 × 5 15/16 in. (22.7 × 15.1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Dance
- Topic: Opera (Music)
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2013.237.8
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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