Lady Day: Museum Object and Cultural History
Lady Day: printing date: 1986. depicted: Holiday, Billie. artist: Bodge, Peter.
The object in the museum catalogue
This linoleum print with black ink on white paper was made by Peter Bodge in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1986. It is a portrait of jazz vocalist Billie Holiday (1915-1959) entitled Lady Day. Artist's proof B.
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
This print was featured on the 2003 poster for the Smithsonian's Jazz Appreciation Month.
Materials, dates and provenance
- printing date: 1986
- depicted: Holiday, Billie
- artist: Bodge, Peter
- Object Name: print
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 20 1/2 in x 23 1/2 in; x 52.07 cm x 59.69 cm
- place made: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
- ID Number: 1989.0025.01
- catalog number: 1989.0025.01
- accession number: 1989.0025
- Credit Line: Gift of Peter Bodge
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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