The negro dancer

Calyo, Nicolino (1799-1884)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1840

Height:

29.2 cm  (11 1/2 in.)

Width:

24.1 cm  (9 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor

Place of creation:

Italia

Description

Figure of a Black man waving an Italian gondolier-style hat in his left hand above his head and posed in a slight bow, with his weight balanced on his right heel; with title written on lower left of page: The Negro dancer; also with inscriptions below image: "first upon my heel, then upon my toe, wheel about, turn about and 'jump Jim Crow'"

Iconclass

43C911
man dancing alone
32B3211
American negroes
48C865
vaudeville, variety show

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Wilson, William. "‘Facing History’: Insights into racism: Exhibit on the image of blacks in American art throws critics into arguments over the place of ideology in curatorship", Los Angeles Times (Feb. 18, 1990) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-18-ca-1499-story.html

Notes

See also "The negro banjo player" (Yale inv. no. 2001.71.2.33), RIdIM item 6095.

RIdIM record id

6094