Object Details
- Artist
- Russell Hoban, 4 Feb 1925 - 13 Dec 2011
- Sitter
- Joan Baez, born 9 Jan 1941
- Exhibition Label
- Born Staten Island, New York
- Known as “the queen of the folk singers” during the heyday of hootenannies—folk music’s version of a jam session—Joan Baez had what a 1962 Time cover story called a voice “as clear as air in the autumn, a vibrant, strong, untrained, and thrilling soprano.” She played the coffeehouse circuit before causing a sensation at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, and she soon became associated with such legendary folk groups as the Weavers and the Seeger family. Her first album of English and American ballads was a huge success and included her soon-to-be- classic renditions of “Barbara Allen” and “All My Trials.” By the mid-1960s Baez was associated with various political causes, most prominently the antiwar and civil rights movements.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine
- 1962
- Object number
- NPG.78.TC215
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Casein on board
- Dimensions
- Sight: 73.7 x 52.1cm (29 x 20 1/2")
- Frame: 86.4 x 64.8cm (34 x 25 1/2")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- Bravo!
- On View
- NPG, South Gallery 322 Mezzanine
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair\Armchair
- Interior\Domestic
- Music\Musical instrument\Guitar
- Joan Baez: Female
- Joan Baez: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Songwriter
- Joan Baez: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Guitarist
- Joan Baez: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer\Folk
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.78.TC215
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm46a778a46-d4a2-4132-9346-b1fcde971353
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