Theater poster of Etta Moten Barnett: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a black and white poster of Etta Moten Barnett. She is depicted in profile, seated, turning her head over her proper left shoulder to gaze at the viewer. She wears a light-colored suit jacket and matching bottom. Her left arm rests on her left knee, on top of a pair of black gloves draped across her thigh. She wears a light-colored hat with a shallow crown and a wide brim with dark bows on one side. On the bottom proper right quadrant is white text that reads “Foto: / F. Bixio y Cia / B de Irigoyen 185 / B Aires.”

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1933
• Photograph by: Florencio Bixio, Italian
• Subject of: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
• Owned by: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (framed): 42 13/16 × 30 15/16 × 1 7/16 in. (108.8 × 78.6 × 3.7 cm)
• Place used: Buenos Aires, Argentina, Latin America, South America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Broadway Theatre
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Topic: Women
• Object number: A2022.13.1.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Florencio Bixio Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.