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"Bessie Smith" - Musician's Portrait Etching on Paper (A/P)
"Bessie Smith" - Musician's Portrait Etching on Paper (A/P)

"Bessie Smith" - Musician's Portrait Etching on Paper (A/P)

Located in Soquel, CA

"Bessie Smith" - Musician's Portrait Etching on Paper (A/P) Clean and modern drypoint etching of a jazz singer Bessie Smith by Maria Bennett (American, 20th Century).

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1970s Modern Portrait Prints

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Listening to Bessie Smith
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Listening to Bessie Smith

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Woody Gruber (1946-2022) Listening to Bessie, 1975. Etching on paper, plate measures 7 inches h. x 7.75 w. Overall framed measurement in 14 x 15 inches. Numbered, titled, signed ...

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Bessie Smith - If You Don't Like My Peaches - Don't Shake My Tree
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By Stephen Longstreet

Located in Fairlawn, OH

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Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist

Gnarled Tree - African American Artist

By Charles Alston

Located in Miami, FL

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By Richard Merkin

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By 1917 he had begun working regularly in Atlantic City, New Jersey and in Chicago, often with such performers as Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, whose staging he helped design.

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