Object Details
- depicted
- Holiday, Billie
- artist
- Bodge, Peter
- Description
This linoleum print with black ink on white paper was made by Peter Bodge in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1986. It is a portrait of jazz vocalist Billie Holiday (1915-1959) entitled Lady Day. Artist's proof B.
Peter Bodge is a jazz drummer, art teacher, and printmaker in Massachusetts. Bodge creates linoleum prints and other works on paper. His work most often features portraits, action shots semi-abstract interpretations of such famous jazz musicians, such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Elllngton , Count Basie and John Coltrane. In 1977, Bodge created a short animated film based on the life of Charlie Parker entitled Bird Lives!:
https://www.cambridgecollege.edu/bird-lives-film-peter-bodge
This print was featured on the 2003 poster for the Smithsonian's Jazz Appreciation Month.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/jazz-appreciation-month/jazz-appreciation-month-posters
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Peter Bodge
- printing date
- 1986
- ID Number
- 1989.0025.01
- catalog number
- 1989.0025.01
- accession number
- 1989.0025
- Object Name
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 1/2 in x 23 1/2 in; x 52.07 cm x 59.69 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Jazz
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_606972
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-3f79-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
