- Photograph by
- Bright, Sheila Pree, American, born 1967
- Subject of
- Gauguin, Eugène Henri Paul, French, 1848 - 1903
- Picasso, Pablo, Spanish, 1881 - 1973
- Kahlo, Frida, Mexican, 1907 - 1954
- Date
- 2006; printed 2016
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Sheet): 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
- H x W (Image): 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
- Caption
- Shoes recently kicked off, toys on the stairs, and a purse dangling from a newel post are all offered by Bright as traces of the Black domestic interior in The Suburbia Portfolio. With figures just out of frame or carefully obscured, these scenes maintain privacy for residents but also create an atmosphere of familiar intimacy and downtime.
- Description
- A color photograph of a white-carpeted library in a home. Across the entire back wall of the room are built-in wood bookshelves with an assortment of books arranged on the shelves, as well as other objects including a small round vase at top, a mask on the second row, and a tall vase at center. Some of the books are placed outward so that the covers are visible, including book on the artists Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo, a book titled "People of Peru", and a book titled "The End of Blackness." At center, in the foreground, is a low bamboo steamer chair with slat back and seat. At proper left, mostly out of frame, is a white sofa.
- Portfolio/Series
- The Suburbia Portfolio
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- inkjet prints
- Topic
- Architecture
- Art
- Black geographies
- Domestic life
- Interior design
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2016.55.9
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Sheila Pree Bright
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




