<I>Blacknuss</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1995
name: label: Created by
content: Willie Birch, American, born 1942
notes: label: Description
content: An offset lithograph with a variety of objects, words, and vignettes celebrating Black music. The imagery is in red, black, blue and green against a green, black, and blue background. Across the top in large black and red lettering is [BLACKNUSS] with the “USS” running down the right side. The words [BLACK] and [BLACKNUSS] are repeated in various sizes and colors throughout the print along with images of hands, hearts, stars, singing lips, and musical notes. There is a hand with a tambourine and a conga drum just left of center. At bottom center, a musician in a hat is seated at a red piano with the word [Hallelujah] in red script. At the bottom right corner is a musician playing the saxophone. Surrounding the print is a simple border of overlapping black, blue, and red lines. The printing extends to the edges of the paper and the vertical side edges are deckled. Along the bottom edge, handwritten in graphite is [A/P] at left, [BLACKNUSS] at center, and the artist’s signature and date [95] at right.
place: label: Place depicted
content: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: African diaspora
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Christianity
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Musicians
label: Topic
content: Religion
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Juanita and Melvin Hardy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.116.3
objectType: label: Type
content: offset lithographs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Willie Birch
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29 3/4 × 21 1/2 in. (75.6 × 54.6 cm)