Color(ed) Theory: Crown Royal Bag

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

A digital print color photograph of a royal purple painted house within an otherwise empty, grassy lot. The square, two-story clapboard structure has a steep gabled roof with decorative, diamond-shaped shingles covering the triangular section of the facade above the second floor. The front door is on the right side and has a transom window above and a small uncovered wooden porch with a short set of narrow wooden stairs leading down to the sidewalk. Ther eis a large square window to the left of the door and two narrow, vertical rectangular windows on the second floor. The house has a concrete foundation, with the first floor starting about two feet above ground level. The house has been entirely painted a royal purple color, including the windows, with the original white appearing at the edges of the decorative shingles and along sections of the window and door trim.

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