Poster for the Sty of the Blind Pig: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a poster for the Negro Ensemble Company’s production of “The Sty of the Blind Pig" at St. Marks Playhouse. The background of the poster is made up of graphics comprised of the repeating phrase “the Negro Ensemble Company” in dark ink against a light grey background. In the center right is a white rectangle. The left-hand corners of the white rectangle are rounded; the right-hand corners are sharp. Inside the white rectangle is black text with the names of the company, the stage production and the playhouse. The text reads in part: [Company: / Adolph Caesar / Frances Foster / Moses Gunn / Clarice Taylor / Stage Manager: Horacena Taylor / NOVEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 26 ONLY / the STY / of the BLIND PIG / by Phillip Hayes Dean]. At the bottom left of the white rectangle is a circle that overlaps outside the rectangle. Inside the circle is text that reads [the / Negro / Ensemble / Company].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1971
• Created by: Negro Ensemble Company, American, founded 1967
• Subject of: Phillip Hayes Dean, American, 1931 - 2014
• Subject of: Adolph Caesar, American, 1933 - 1986
• Subject of: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011
• Subject of: Frances Foster, American, 1924 - 1997
• Subject of: Moses Gunn, 1929 - 1993
• Subject of: Shauneille Perry, American, 1929 - 2022
• Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 23 × 12 3/4 in. (58.4 × 32.4 cm)
• Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Drama (Theatre)
• Topic: Theatre
• Topic: Theatre companies
• Object number: 2013.188.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of William and James Thomas and family in memory of Clarice Taylor
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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