Object Details
- recipient
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- presenter
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Description
- Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award presented to jazz vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald in 1979. Playwright Tennesse Williams, choreographer Martha Graham, and composer Aaron Copland were fellow recipients that year.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Fitzgerald 1989 Trust (through Richard D. Rosman)
- presentation date
- 1979
- ID Number
- 1996.0342.048
- accession number
- 1996.0342
- catalog number
- 1996.0342.048
- Object Name
- award
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- ribbon (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/2 in x 15 1/4 in x 21 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 38.735 cm x 53.975 cm
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Jazz
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Awards and Prizes
- Record ID
- nmah_1028001
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-cfad-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
