Group portrait of a theater performance: Museum Object and Cultural History
Group portrait of a theater performance: Date: 1948 - 1970s. Created by: Rev. Henry Clay Anderson, American, 1911 - 1998. Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white photograph of two women and a man engaged in a theater performance. The man, left, wears a t-shirt under an approximation of a toga and a laurel crown. The woman at center gestures towards him as the second, at right, looks on. Both women wear dresses. The scenery includes a table and chairs as well as two fluted columns in the background.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1948 - 1970s
- Created by: Rev. Henry Clay Anderson, American, 1911 - 1998
- Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Medium: photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
- Place made: Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Drama (Theatre)
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2012.137.3.31
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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