Sonny Clark ~ Cool Struttin’
1958 / Blue Note BLP 1588 / Vinyl LP / Cover Design by Reid Miles, Photography by Francis Wolff
National Poetry Month~ April 15
Alice Dunbar Nelson by Laura Wheeler Waring
1927 / Oil on canvas / 24 9/16″x20 1/4″ / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, DC
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Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson~ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alice-moore-dunbar-nelson
Jazz Appreciation Month: Album Cover Art~ April 14
Thelonious Monk Quartet ~ Misterioso
1958 / Riverside Records RLP 12-279 / Vinyl LP / Cover Design by Paul Bacon
Painting is a reproduction of The Seer, Giorgio de Chirico‘s 1915 tribute to French poet Arthur Rimbaud
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National Poetry Month~ April 14
Robert Frost by Walker Hancock
1969 cast after 1950 original / Bronze / 16 1/2″x9 1/2″x10″ / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, DC
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Robert Frost~ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-frost
Jazz Appreciation Month: Album Cover Art~ April 13
Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims ~ Jutta Hipp and Zoot Sims
1957 / Blue Note BLP 1530 / Vinyl LP / Cover Design by Reid Miles
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National Poetry Month~ April 13
Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso
1905-6 / Oil on canvas / 39 3/8″x32″ / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
“If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso” by Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein~ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gertrude-stein
Jazz Appreciation Month: Album Cover Art~ April 12
Blue Train ~ John Coltrane
1957 / Blue Note BLP 1577 / Vinyl LP / Cover Photograph by Francis Wolff
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National Poetry Month~ April 12
Paul Laurence Dunbar by Richmond Barthé
1928 / Painted plaster / 18″x7 3/4″x9″ / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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Paul Laurence Dunbar~ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-laurence-dunbar
Jazz Appreciation Month: Album Cover Art~ April 11
Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
1956 / Capitol Records W735 / Vinyl LP / Cover Design by Saul Bass
With the poetry of radio writer Norman Sickel as a guide, each composer was assigned different colors to muse upon, with Victor Young, Jeff Alexander, Alec Wilder, and Nelson Riddle receiving two each, and Billy May, Gordon Jenkins, Elmer Bernstein, and André Previn one apiece.
~https://www.allmusic.com/album/frank-sinatra-conducts-tone-poems-of-color-mw0000212324
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National Poetry Month~ April 11
James Weldon Johnson by Winold Reiss
c.1920 / Pastel on illustration board / 30 1/16″x21 9/16″ / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, DC
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James Weldon Johnson~ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-weldon-johnson
The Misty Miss Christy 