Fats Domino

@ National Portrait Gallery

Description

New Orleans native Antoine "Fats" Domino was already a popular figure in the world of rhythm and blues when his songs such as "Ain't That a Shame" and "Blueberry Hill" (depicted here on the piano) exploded onto the rock-and-roll scene in the 1950s, attracting an enormous popular following.Artist Red Grooms, who listened to rock-and-roll in his studio, considers this piece a tribute to Domino. Grooms's interest in three-dimensionality eventually led not only to his construction of huge sculptural pictoramas but also smaller-scale paper sculpture, including innovative printed and glued constructions like this exuberant and witty portrait.

Type:

Image

Format:

Color Lithograph On Paper

Rights:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=npg_NPG.2003.78&repo=DPLA