Prop wedding portrait painting from an episode of The Cosby Show: Museum Object and Cultural History
Prop wedding portrait painting from an episode of The Cosby Show: Date: 1985. Created by: Oliver Johnson, American, born 1948. Subject of: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011.
The object in the museum catalogue
A prop oil painting depicting a wedding portrait of a man and a woman, Earle Hyman and Clarice Taylor as The Cosby Show characters Russell and Anna Huxtable. Shown from the waist up, they stand side by side. Hyman wears an olive green military uniform and smiles directly at the viewer. Taylor wears a white dress with a wide sweetheart neckline. and a long white veil over her head that drapes down over her shoulders and back. She has small pearl earrings and holds a bouquet of white and yellow flowers in front of her. The painting is in a brown wooden frame with decorative carvings around the edges.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1985
- Created by: Oliver Johnson, American, born 1948
- Subject of: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011
- Subject of: Earle Hyman, American, born 1926
- Owned by: Clarice Taylor, American, 1917 - 2011
- Type: oil paintings
- Type: portraits
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: H x W (unframed): 29 15/16 × 28 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (76.1 × 71.4 × 3.5 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W x D (framed): 36 1/4 × 34 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (92 × 86.7 × 3.5 cm)
- Place collected: United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Marriage customs and rites
- Topic: Sitcoms
- Topic: Television
- Topic: Theatre
- Object number: 2013.188.7
- 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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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: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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