Untitled: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A framed color lithograph, “Untitled” by William Pajaud. The print uses muted colors to depict the abstract figure of a jazz trumpet player. He is depicted from the waist up, holding his trumpet close to this chest, with the mouthpiece at the top. The background is a light green color, and the trumpet player is wearing a light blue suit. There are strokes of pink across his hands and near his left elbow.

The work is signed at bottom center, near the bell of the trumpet: [Pajaud] and inscribed at the bottom left corner: [28/50].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1975
• Created by: William Pajaud, American, 1925 - 2015
• Type: lithographs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (unframed): 19 1/2 × 16 in. (49.5 × 40.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (framed): 21 × 17 1/2 in. (53.3 × 44.5 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Object number: 2023.39.37ab
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Carroll Parrott Blue
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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