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Album Cover, Sun Song by Sun Ra
This is a Album cover. It was designed by Laini Abernathy and made for (as the client) Delmark Records. It is dated 1967 and we acquired it in 2021. Its medium is lithograph on folded paper. It is a part of the department.
Considered to have been the first Black female designer of a jazz record cover, Laini Abernathy became known for giving form to abstract sounds. This graphic sun expresses the optimism of Afrofuturist music and the cosmic jazz of Sun Ra.
It is credited Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
Its dimensions are
31.4 × 31.8 cm (12 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.)
It is inscribed
At top of image, at center: "sun/ra/sun/song"
Cite this object as
Album Cover, Sun Song by Sun Ra; Designed by Laini Abernathy (American, died 2010); Client: Delmark Records; lithograph on folded paper; 31.4 × 31.8 cm (12 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.); Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2021-25-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Duro Olowu Selects.
