Object Details
- depicted
- Ellington, Duke
- artist
- Bodge, Peter
- Description
This linoleum print with black ink on white paper was made by Peter Bodge in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1986. It is a portrait of American composer. Pianist, and jazz band and orchestra leader , composer, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1918–1974) entitled Meditation. Print number 8/10.
Peter Bodge is a jazz drummer, art teacher, and printmaker in Massachusetts. Bodge creates linoleum prints and other works on paper. His work most often features portraits, action shots semi-abstract interpretations of such famous jazz musicians, such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Elllngton , Count Basie and John Coltrane. In 1977, Bodge created a short animated film based on the life of Charlie Parker entitled Bird Lives!:
https://www.cambridgecollege.edu/bird-lives-film-peter-bodge
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Peter Bodge
- printing date
- 1986
- ID Number
- 1989.0025.04
- catalog number
- 1989.0025.04
- accession number
- 1989.0025
- Object Name
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17 1/2 in x 17 1/2 in; x 44.45 cm x 44.45 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Jazz
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_606975
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-3f7c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
