Prop wedding portrait painting from an episode of The Cosby Show

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A prop oil painting depicting a wedding portrait of a man and a woman, Earle Hyman and Clarice Taylor as The Cosby Show characters Russell and Anna Huxtable. Shown from the waist up, they stand side by side. Hyman wears an olive green military uniform and smiles directly at the viewer. Taylor wears a white dress with a wide sweetheart neckline. and a long white veil over her head that drapes down over her shoulders and back. She has small pearl earrings and holds a bouquet of white and yellow flowers in front of her. The painting is in a brown wooden frame with decorative carvings around the edges.

Catalog date

1985

Recorded places

United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Actors; Families; Marriage customs and rites; Sitcoms; Television; Theatre

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