Exhibitions

Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio

January 31, 1997 – September 14, 1997

National Portrait Gallery
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC

1st Floor, Gallery 108

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16 lithographs by Paul Colin convey the impact of African American jazz singer Josephine Baker on black culture in Paris in the 1920s. These selections are part of 44-lithograph portfolio entitled Le Tumulte Noir (The Black Craze) (1929).