Dancing waiter / Covarrubias. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Dancing waiter / Covarrubias., a historic drawing rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Dancing waiter / Covarrubias.
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A single ink drawing, published under the title "Waiter" in Miguel Covarrubias's *Negro Drawings* (Alfred A. Knopf, 1927), shows a waiter caught mid-step in a lively dance. Covarrubias, a Mexican caricaturist who had settled in New York in the early 1920s, drew Harlem's nightlife and its performers with exaggerated, rhythmic lines that echo the music and movement of the period. Its subject, African Americans in service work who were also central to the entertainment scene, places it within the Harlem Renaissance, when artists and writers were redefining how Black life was portrayed. The drawing is worth a close look for its economy of line and its blend of humor and affection.
| Created / published | 1927 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Notes | (DLC/PP-1976:R2.42) Published as: Waiter" in Negro Drawings / Covarrubias. New York : Alfred A. Knopf |
| Subjects | African Americans--Dance--1920-1930. Waiters--United States--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 958 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164119 |
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