Untitled (Etta Moten Barnett): Museum Object and Cultural History
Untitled (Etta Moten Barnett): Date: ca. 1940. Created by: Richmond Barthé, American, 1901 - 1989. Subject of: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004.
The object in the museum catalogue
A bust portrait drawing of Etta Moten Barnett, in pastel on cream wove paper. Barnett is depicted from the neck up, her head turned slightly to the left, with shoulder-length curly black hair and red and gold earrings. Signed in pastel at lower right [Barthé].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1940
- Created by: Richmond Barthé, American, 1901 - 1989
- Subject of: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
- Type: oil pastels
- Type: portraits
- Medium: oil pastel on wove paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 27 × 22 in. (68.6 × 55.9 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Art
- Topic: Broadway Theatre
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2022.27.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and National Portrait Gallery
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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