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Coltrane at Half Note

Roy DeCarava

Coltrane at Half Note

1955

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Roy DeCarava

Coltrane at Half Note

1955

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 343 x 262 mm. (13 1/2 x 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Morton and Sophia Macht Foundation Accession Fund
Object Number 1989.364
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase 1989; Roy and Sherry DeCarava.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "BMA Collects: African-American Art," January 21 - March 18, 1990

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005 - February 26, 2005; The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005 - November 20, 2005; The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006 - April 9, 2006

Inscribed: stamp on verso in purple: "ROY DECARAVA / 81 HALSEY STREET / BKLYN., N.Y. 11216 / Nevens 8-0347"

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Roy DeCarava

1918–2008

American, 1919-2009
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