Bust-length portrait of a dark-skinned man playing the trumpet amidst colorful brushstrokes of paint

Study for the Wall of Respect (Miles Davis)

Artist Jeff Donaldson (American, 1932 - 2004)

Date1967

MediumOil on heavy cream wove paper with mixed media

Dimensionsoverall: 24 in x 18 in

ClassificationPainting

Credit LineMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, purchased with funds from Block Friends of Art

Object number2017.2

Collections

Critical Portraits

Text Entries

Benjamin Jones, "Jeff Donaldson, Study for the Wall of Respect (Miles Davis)," essay from the publication Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block's Collection (2021)

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