<i>Louis Armstrong</i>
date: label: Date made
content: 1939
name: label: depicted
content: Armstrong, Louis
label: maker
content: Delaunay, Charles
notes: label: Description
content: <p>White on black lithograph of American jazz trumpeter, composer, vocalist, and actor, Louis Armstrong (1901-1971). The portrait is of a side profile of Amrstrong. The print is marked:</p>
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content: <p>[printed along bottom]</p>
label: Description
content: LOUIS ARMSTRONG
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content: <p>[in script, top left]</p>
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content: <p>LOUIS ARMSTRONG </p>
label: Description
content: <p> [in script]</p>
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content: <p>Charles Delaunay 34</p>
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content: <p>This print is from a set of 15 lithographs of jazz musicians by Charles Delauney, entitled <i>Hot Iconography,</i> first printed in 1939.</p>
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content: <p>Charles Delaunay (1911–1988) was a French author and jazz expert. Delaunay was the co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France, a French organization of jazz fans dedicated to the promotion of "traditional" jazz, swing, and blues. In 1931, the Jazz Club Universitaire was founded, and later became the Hot Club de France in 1932.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Art
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content: Jazz
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Chris Gillis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0182.10
label: accession number
content: 2001.0182
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0182.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 43.8 cm x 29.5 cm; 17 1/4 in x 11 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 3/16 in x 11 1/2 in; 43.65625 cm x 29.21 cm