Description:Contains Retrospective Commentary By The Artist: The Joseph Regenstein Library, The University Of Chicago, October November, 1989The Chicago jazz scene of the 1920s and 1930 is memorialized in this exhibit, which showcases over 60 watercolors, drawings, and collages by art-historian and long-time jazz observer Stephen Longstreet. The exhibit also presents historic photographs and memorabilia form the Chicago Jazz Archive, which is housed in the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Longstreet, whose work was considered "too modern" to sell, pursued a career as a magazine artist and cartoonist and was published in the New Yorker, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. In 1933 He began writing radio shows for John Barrymore, Bob Hope, and Rudy Valle. As a jazz historian, Longstreet was always concerned with, as he said "the smell of the real thing" than with any exacting description of music. The exhibit focuses on several pieces of his work, and the jazz scene it represented, at the same time celebrating the Chicago Jazz Archive.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jazz, The Chicago Scene: The Art of Stephen Longstreet. To get started finding Jazz, The Chicago Scene: The Art of Stephen Longstreet, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
28
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University of Chicago Library
Release
1989
ISBN
094305611X
Jazz, The Chicago Scene: The Art of Stephen Longstreet
Description: Contains Retrospective Commentary By The Artist: The Joseph Regenstein Library, The University Of Chicago, October November, 1989The Chicago jazz scene of the 1920s and 1930 is memorialized in this exhibit, which showcases over 60 watercolors, drawings, and collages by art-historian and long-time jazz observer Stephen Longstreet. The exhibit also presents historic photographs and memorabilia form the Chicago Jazz Archive, which is housed in the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Longstreet, whose work was considered "too modern" to sell, pursued a career as a magazine artist and cartoonist and was published in the New Yorker, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. In 1933 He began writing radio shows for John Barrymore, Bob Hope, and Rudy Valle. As a jazz historian, Longstreet was always concerned with, as he said "the smell of the real thing" than with any exacting description of music. The exhibit focuses on several pieces of his work, and the jazz scene it represented, at the same time celebrating the Chicago Jazz Archive.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jazz, The Chicago Scene: The Art of Stephen Longstreet. To get started finding Jazz, The Chicago Scene: The Art of Stephen Longstreet, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.