Photograph of Etta Moten Barnett gazing at a painting
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1960
name: label: Photograph by
content: Isaac Sutton, 1923 - 1995
label: Subject of
content: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
label: Owned by
content: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
notes: label: Description
content: This is a black and white photograph of Etta Moten Barnett gazing at a painting. Photographed from below, she has a monumental aspect. She is shown from the hips up, wearing a long sleeved white blouse with a brooch at the neckline and a grey straight skirt. On her head she wears an intricately wound headwrap with a detailed contracting dark/light pattern. Standing in a quarter-turn to the viewer she holds her left arm up in the arm and has her left hand resting at the back of the headwrap. Her gaze is to her right, at a painting on the wall of the bust of a woman wearing a similarly wound headwrap. The painting shows the woman from the neck up wearing the headwrap and a light-colored round-necked shirt against a plain background. The painting is framed. Next to the painting on the wall is a large map of Africa. The photographer’s stamp is on the back.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Africa
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Etta Moten Barnett Archive
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: A2022.13.1.35.3
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10 7/16 × 10 7/16 in. (26.5 × 26.5 cm)