Jazz on paper: art from The Jazz Century exhibition
King Zulu by Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1986Photograph: MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de BarcelonaJazz (Variante) by Fernand Leger, c. 1930 Photograph: Paris, Galerie BerèsJosephine Baker est aux Folies Bergeres by Michel Gyarmathy, 1927 Photograph: New York, Collection Rennert
Portrait of Billie Holiday by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Photograph: Carl Van Vechten/Library of Congress, WashingtonBlue Lights Volume 1. Kenny Burrell. Blue Note 1580, by Andy Warhol, 1958 Photograph: Newark, Rutgers, University of New Jersey, Institute of Jazz Studies, John Cotton Dana LibraryHomage to Duke, Bessie & Louis, n.d. Legende, by Romare Howard Bearden, museum purchase and gift of E. Thomas Williams and Audlyn Higgins Williams, New York 9th April 1997 Photograph: Studio Museum, HarlemJosephine Baker au Bal Negre by Kees van Dongen 1925 Photograph: Collection Andre Van BreusegemGene Krupa and His Orchestra Columbia Records Set C-138, 1947 by Jim Flora, Photograph: Paris, Collection PriveePortrait of a Musician, by Thomas Hart Benton, 1949Photograph: University of Missouri, ColumbiaUntitled by Keith Haring, 1983 Photograph: Collection Guillhem NaveInterpretation of Harlem Jazz by Winold Reiss 1925 Photograph: Collection ParticuliereLouis and Earl Hot Jazz Classics. Columbia Records Set Number C-73, by Alex Steinweiss, 1940 Photograph: Paris, Collection priveeThe Clifford Thornton Ensemble by Niklaus Troxler 1977 Photograph: Niklaus TroxlerNew New York Jazz by Niklaus Troxler 1987 Photograph: Niklaus Troxler
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