Name/Title
Negro BandEntry/Object ID
2003.13.0002Tags
Black/African American/AfricanDescription
Print by Waldo Peirce depicting sailors dancing in front of band at the Silver Slipper Bar operated by Sloppy Joe Russell. Printed on the reverse, 'After banging around quite a bit, getting an education, making the Grand Tour, and living in all sorts of strange places, Waldo Peirce say that he is 'well content to return to his native Maine,' where he was born fifty-five years ago. 'I think it's a fortunate artist,' Peirce declares, 'who has a birthplace and environment he is happy to return to after the Grand Tour, etc., and he should do his best in his home country...not as a regional purveyor of small beer, etc., but cosmically in harmony with what is about him—land, sea, sky, people, etc., whereby his art, if any good, becomes international, and not local.' 'Negro Band blares out hot rhythms at the Silver Slipper, a Key West dance hall.'Collection
Art CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1936 - 2000Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
Date: 1936
Technique: SketchInscription/Signature/Marks
Notes
Signed Name: Waldo Peirce
Signature Location: Bottom Right CornerLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PrintNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsDimensions
Height
10 inWidth
12-5/8 inCondition
Reason for Exam
InventoryOverall Condition
Very GoodOverall Condition
Excellent