Object Details
- depicted
- Armstrong, Louis
- Description
This chalkware statue of American jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was made by Esco Products, Inc. in New York, circa 1972. The statue depicts Armstrong in a burgundy jacket with white shirt, black bowtie, pants and shoes, holding a trumpet in his right hand and a handkerchief in his left hand. As in many of Esco’s celebrity statues, the heads are exaggerated in size.
The statue was given to American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and is inscribed on the bottom of the statue, “FROM PHOEBE.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Fitzgerald 1989 Trust (through Richard D. Rosman)
- manufacturing date
- ca 1972
- ID Number
- 1996.0342.062
- accession number
- 1996.0342
- catalog number
- 1996.0342.062
- Object Name
- statue
- Physical Description
- paint (overall material)
- plaster (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 5 13/16 in; 40.005 cm x 16.51 cm x 14.76375 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
- Art
- Jazz
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1190830
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-06f9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
