Drawing, Textile Design: The Enchanted Isle of Beautiful Sounds

"The Creeper," Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra (1926)

Arthur Crisp’s textile drawing The Enchanted Isle of Musical Sounds reminds me of early jazz in New York City in the 1920s—evocative, exotic, fresh, energizing, and at times mysterious. “The...

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