Couples Dancing

© Estate of Jay Paul Jackson. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for repro…
© Estate of Jay Paul Jackson
Couples Dancing
© Estate of Jay Paul Jackson. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Couples Dancing

Datec. 1940
Artist (American illustrator and cartoonist, 1905–1954)
Illustration CitationProduced for American Negro Exposition, 1940
MediumWatercolor, ink, and charcoal on paper
Dimensionssheet: 12 9/16 × 9 11/16 in. (31.9 × 24.6 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 2022
Object number2022-96
On View
On view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextEtta Moten gained fame as a singer, dancer, and actor on stage, radio, and screen. Her husband, perhaps her dance partner here, Claude Albert Barnett was was head of the Associated Negro Press in Chicago. Both had leading roles in the American Negro Exposition of 1940, when this drawing was produced.
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