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Visual Jazz
The Music Division's collections include twenty-three watercolors by writer, cartoonist, and painter Stephen Longstreet (1907–2002). Longstreet wrote radio scripts and screenplays, including The Jolson Story and The Helen Morgan Story, as well as more than one hundred books of fiction and non-fiction. Trained as an artist, he found work as an illustrator and he's perhaps best known for his jazz-inspired drawings and watercolors. These two Longstreet pieces, titled Club Date Spot Light and Harlem Shouter, are among Longstreet's images "depicting aspects of jazz culture" donated to the Library through the office of Senator Samuel Ichiye "S. I." Hayakawa (R-CA) in 1979.
Stephen Longstreet. Club Date Spot Light, undated. Watercolor. |