Object Details
- depicted
- Armstrong, Louis
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Description (Brief)
This chalkware statue of American jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was made by Esco Products, Inc. in New York, circa 1972. The statue depicts Armstrong in a burgundy jacket with white shirt, black bowtie, pants and shoes, holding a trumpet in his right hand and a handkerchief in his left hand. As in many of Esco’s celebrity statues, the heads are exaggerated in size.
The statue was given to American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and is inscribed on the bottom of the statue, “FROM PHOEBE.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Fitzgerald 1989 Trust (through Richard D. Rosman)
- ca 1972
- ID Number
- 1996.0342.062
- accession number
- 1996.0342
- catalog number
- 1996.0342.062
- Object Name
- statue
- Physical Description
- plaster (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 40 cm x 16 cm x 15 cm; 15 3/4 in x 6 5/16 in x 5 7/8 in
- place made
- United States: New York, New York
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Jazz
- African American
- Musicians
- Record ID
- nmah_1190830
- GUID (Original Record Link)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-06f9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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