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A couple is dancing and musical instruments and rhythm patterns fill the composition; colors are black, brown, yellow, green.
Boogie Woogie
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Boogie Woogie

Artist Mildred Rackley (American, 1906 - 1992)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project , NYC Studio (1935 - 1943)
Datec. 1935-1943
Place of originNew York, New York
MediumColor woodcut
Dimensionssheet: 11 15/16 x 9 in. (30.3 x 22.9 cm)
image: 6 1/16 x 4 15/16 in. (15.4 x 12.5 cm)
mat: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineCourtesy of the Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration, commissioned through the New Deal Art Projects, with gratitude to Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams.
Object numberL2012.54.57
Collections
Visual DescriptionA couple is dancing and musical instruments and rhythm patterns fill the composition; colors are black, brown, yellow, green.
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1972
A color study in yellow of a young girl playing a musical instrument while seated on an orange chair; she wears a yellow dress.
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Gustavo Montoya
undated
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c. 1979
Flight into Egypt
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first half of 20th c
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undated
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Euterpe
Eva Hašková
1982
A crowd of people mostly seated around a large table drinking and talking merrily; a woman sits in the foreground with dressing/undressing, people stand in the doorway, a large stringed musical instrument (harp?) in the background, and art on the walls. Illustration from a tavern scene in Hogarth's A Rake's Progress.
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1735-1763
A black and white photograph of a man and several young boys playing instruments (a snare drum, saxophone, and trumpet) on a street corner. Passers by gather to listen.
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Miguel Gandert
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