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Jazz Drawings

Since the first Capital City Jazz Festival in 1985, Frank has put on more than a dozen solo exhibitions of Jazz Drawings, most recently at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in 2003. These drawings are based on Frank’s first-hand observation of musicians in jazz clubs and at festivals.

“In 1983 I discovered a little jazz club in Cincinnati, the Blue Wisp. Periodically, I’d slip in with a sketchbook and a coffee can full of felt-tip markers, sit down, and draw like a demon until closing time. Through the eighties I sketched the jazz up and down the east coast, particularly in New York, where you could hear the guys play till just about sunrise if you knew where to go.

“Ever since then I have focused my drawing on folks who are doing what they love to do and who are very good at it.”

Dewey Redman, with Charlie Hayden, at Sweet Basil, September 1986
Ink and collage, 25” x 15”
© Frank DuVal 1995

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Ron Carter at Sweet Basil,
August 3, 1985
Pencil, ink and colored inks, 24” x 18”
© Frank DuVal 2003

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Lionel Hampton at Saratoga Springs, Newport Jazz Festival, June 1986
Colored inks on rice paper, 40” x 24”
© Frank DuVal 1991

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Curtis Fuller at the Village Vanguard,
August 1985

Ink, wash and collage, 15” x 25”
© Frank DuVal 1995

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Hank Jones at University of Maryland
Baltimore Campus, sponsored by the Jazz
Heritage Foundation, October 1, 1988

Ink, wash and collage, 15” x 25”
© Frank DuVal 1995

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Jimmy Heath at University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, sponsored by the Jazz Heritage Foundation,
October 1, 1988

Colored inks on rice paper, 22” x 17”
© Frank DuVal 2002

$700

Wynton Marsalis at Saratoga Springs, Freihofer Jazz, 2002
India ink, colored inks and wash on rice paper, 23" x 19"
© Frank DuVal 2010

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Arnie Lawrence at Cafe 43, Jazz at Noon, October 1986
India ink on watercolor paper, small tearing on the left and right edges; 24" x 18"
© Frank DuVal 1986

$550

With Joe Byrd at the Unitarian Congregation, Frederick, Maryland, October 24, 2004
Charcoal and ink wash on paper,
22" x 15"
© Frank DuVal 2009

$750

Rufus Reid at Otter Crest,
May 1988

India ink and wash on rice paper,
24" x 19"
© Frank DuVal 2010

$950

Chick Corea at Blues Alley, July 1985
India ink, colored inks and wash on rice paper,
16" x 20 1/2", image size
© Frank DuVal 1986

$1,400

At the Village, Frederick, Maryland, August 17, 2006
India ink on paper, 15” x 11”
© Frank DuVal 2009

$625

Dane, at Danielle's, November 15, 2007
India ink on paper, 15" x 11"
© Frank DuVal 2009

$650

With the Peabody Ragtime Ensemble at the Weinberg Center, Frederick, Maryland
Charcoal on paper, 22" x 30"
© Frank DuVal

$1,200

   

Charles McPherson at the Village Vanguard, August 3, 1985
India ink, colored inks and wash, 24" x 18"
© Frank DuVal 1986

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