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Jitterbugs III – Antique Wall Art

Jitterbugs III, [ca. 1940] — historic print
Jitterbugs III, [ca. 1940]. Historic print from the Music & Dance collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Jitterbugs III, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The third in a numbered set of "Jitterbugs" prints, this color silkscreen shows the energetic partner dance that spread with swing music in the late 1930s and 1940s. It comes from the records of the Harmon Foundation, a New York organization founded in 1922 that promoted African American artists through exhibitions and awards, and its catalog notes list the work as part of the foundation's holdings. Silkscreen was a fairly new medium for fine art then, and the flat, bold color typical of the process suits a subject built on rhythm and movement. The record gives no artist name, so the image's maker is best approached through the Harmon files themselves.

Created / published[ca. 1940]
Medium1 print : silkscreen, color.
GenreScreen prints Color 1930-1950.
NotesNo. FO-259-A (III). From Harmon Foundation Inc., Records. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1971:154
SubjectsDance--1930-1950. African Americans--Dance--1930-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,658 × 2,121 px · prints to 6 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-215926

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