Photograph of Mary Lou Williams playing piano with Andy Kirk and his orchestra: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Mary Lou Williams playing piano with Andy Kirk and his orchestra: Date: 1930s; autographed 1980. Photograph by: Gordon Conner Studio, American. Subject of: Mary Lou Williams, American, 1910 - 1981.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white photograph, landscape orientation, of Mary Lou Williams playing the piano with Andy Kirk and his Orchestra. Mary Lou is at the piano on the left side of the image, with the conductor behind her to the left, with the remaining orchestra are on levels going up towards the right, with the drums on the far right. Printed in white in bottom left corner of image, appears like handwritting, reads [Gordon/Conner/CLEVELAND]. Handwritten note in blue ink in bottom right corner of image, reads [To Serbert/Really fantastic/Yours Love/Mary Lou Williams/1980]. Captioned below the image, on white border with black type, reads [ANDY KIRT/And His Orchestra] on the left, and [Direction/JOE GLASER/R.C.A. Building 30 Rockefeller Plaza/New York, N.Y.] on the right. Nothing on reverse.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1930s; autographed 1980
- Photograph by: Gordon Conner Studio, American
- Subject of: Mary Lou Williams, American, 1910 - 1981
- Subject of: Andy Kirk, American, 1898 - 1992
- Subject of: Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy, American, 1929 - 1948
- Subject of: Joe Glaser, American, 1896 - 1969
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.6 × 25.4 cm)
- Place captured: Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Object number: 2014.3.10
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Paxton and Rachel Baker
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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