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Jazz and Blues Singers:
Billie Holiday
Oil on paper mounted to board
Artist: Howard
Koslow
Art director: Howard E. Paine
First day of issue: September 17, 1994
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Howard Koslow closely based this painting on a picture
taken by William P. Gottlieb, a journalist who photographed
hundreds of musicians during the 1930s and 1940s. Amazingly,
when Gottlieb was contacted by the Postal Service, he
was able to narrow down the year to 1940 or 1941, and
the likely location to a nightclub on 52nd Street in
Manhattan. |
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