Satchmo
1989
Artist
Seymour Chwast
DIMENSIONS
44 x 30 in. (111.8 x 76.2 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.4339
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Black, Entertainment, Instrument, Man, Music, Portrait, Product

In this artist’s proof from Chwast’s “O” series of silkscreen prints, the designer again attempts to distill the most immediately distinguishable characteristics of his subject in cinematic close-up. Here, he represents legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong with the smile that gave him the nickname “Satchmo” (short for “Satchelmouth”) and the trumpet with which he first established his reputation as a great jazz soloist in the 1920s.

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