Jun 17 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2709 -

Sale 2709 - Lot 74

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
LEONARD JENKINS (1905 - ?)
His First Horn.

Mixed media on thick card stock, 1997. 508x406 mm; 20x16 inches. Initialed in ink, lower right image. Signed in ink, verso.

Publication
Published in If I Only Had a Horn, Young Louis Armstrong by Roxane Orgill (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
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Additional Details

"His First Horn," one of the many stories of his childhod, Louis Armstrong played a bugle first while in a New Orleans reform school. In this illustration, the school's music teacher gives him an old cornet with which Louis leads a march through his neighborhood.

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