To the Colored Waiting Room by Marion Palfi @HighMuseum
To the Colored Waiting Room by Marion Palfi  @HighMuseum
Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
As part of her work as a Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellow in the African Art department, Nyaradzai Mahachi has curated a photography installation centered on the generation empowered during the civil rights movement. The selected photographs include images depicting children and feature photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Myrlie Evers, a leading civil rights activist; and Mahalia Jackson, who is considered one of the most influential vocalists of the twentieth century.

In this month’s collection highlight, we take a look at one of the included photographs, Marion Palfi’s To the Colored Waiting Room, currently on view in the Stent Family Wing on the Skyway Level.

Marion Palfi American, born Germany, 1907–1978 To the Colored Waiting Room, 1945–1949 Purchase with funds from the H. B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust and Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection, 1994.58

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"To the Colored Waiting Room" by Marion Palfi

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