Photographic print of Dizzy Gillespie, from Perkins: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photographic print of Dizzy Gillespie, from Perkins: Date: 1950s. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Dizzy Gillespie, American, 1917 - 1993.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white photograph of three men. Dizzy Gillespie is the man in the center, wearing a fez style hat, glasses and a jacket and tie. All three men are looking towards the camera and smiling. A bar is visible in the background. An inscription in lower left corner reads [To Dizzy From Perkins].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1950s
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Dizzy Gillespie, American, 1917 - 1993
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 6 7/8 x 9 9/16 in. (17.5 x 24.3 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2012.172.7.4
- 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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