Photographic print of Tito and Paquito D'Rivera inscribed to Dizzy Gillespie: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photographic print of Tito and Paquito D'Rivera inscribed to Dizzy Gillespie: Date: 1950s, signed 1986. Created by: Unidentified. Owned by: Dizzy Gillespie, American, 1917 - 1993.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white photograph mounted on an album page. The photograph features Tito D'Rivera in a white jacket with bow tie and conductor's baton. His hand is on the shoulder of his young son, Paquito D'Rivera. Paquito is wearing a white suit and is holding a saxophone. The photograph is inscribed across the front.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1950s, signed 1986
- Created by: Unidentified
- Owned by: Dizzy Gillespie, American, 1917 - 1993
- Subject of: Tito D'Rivera, Cuban
- Subject of: Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban American, born 1947
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 9 3/4 x 7 9/16 in. (24.8 x 19.2 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (23.5 x 19.1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Child musicians
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Fatherhood
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Object number: 2012.172.7.5
- 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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