[Percussion] / Covarrubias. – Historic Print
![[Percussion] / Covarrubias., 1926 — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/66/66375e9c42f5-L.webp)
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A window into the past: [Percussion] / Covarrubias., preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Percussion] / Covarrubias.
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Rather than a portrait of a single performer, this drawing takes percussion itself as its subject, a focus that reflects how drums had moved to the center of jazz and dance-band music by the mid-1920s. Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias, who had settled in New York in the early 1920s, made it for a series of caricatures of figures in the city's music world. His exaggerated line and angular forms turn the musicians into bold, rhythmic shapes. The series appeared during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, when Black musicians were reshaping American popular culture.
| Created / published | 1926 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Notes | (DLC/PP-1976:R2.45) Published in: A few eminent inhabitants of the metropolitan music world |
| Subjects | African Americans--Music--1920-1930. Drums--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,069 × 4,249 px · prints to 10 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif05982_PercussionCovarrubias |
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