Pinback button for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pinback button for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Date: ca. 1988. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Photograph by: Normand Maxon.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pinback button for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The button has a purple background with gray lettering and an image of Alvin Ailey. Gray text at the top of the button reads [Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater]. Below the text is an image of Ailey, bent down on one knee with his arms raised in the air. Underneath the image, additional gray text reads [For 30 Years The Heart And Soul Of Dance]. Gray text on an exterior edge of the button credits the photograph [Photo of Alvin Ailey By Normand Maxon]. The back of the button has a metal pin with a clasp.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1988
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Photograph by: Normand Maxon
- Issued by: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American, founded 1958
- Subject of: Alvin Ailey, American, 1931 - 1989
- Type: buttons (information artifacts)
- Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 3 1/8 × 2 1/8 × 5/16 in. (7.9 × 5.4 × 0.8 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Modern dance
- Object number: 2013.68.33
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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