Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

301 301 c   (MUSIC.) Leonard, Herman; photographer. “Ella Fitzgerald w/Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Richard Rodgers Downbeat NYC 1949.” Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 inches; numbered in pencil “9543” on verso, signed and captioned by the photographer in lower margin. NewYork, 1949; printed circa 1980s [1,500/2,500] Fitzgerald had the rapt attention of a pretty impressive front-row crowd here, including perhaps the two most famous bandleaders and most famous songwriter of the day. 302 302 c   (MUSIC.) Leonard, Herman; photo- grapher. Photograph of Duke Ellington’s shoes in a Paris dressing room. Gelatin silver print, 13 3 / 4 x 10 3 / 4 inches, captioned and signed by the photographer in image. Paris, 1958; printed circa 1994 [500/750] An artistic composition titled “Duke Ellington, Paris” and dated 1958. It shows the bandlead- er’s shoes and tie, along with a small teapot and half-finished cup of tea, laid out in front of a dress- ing-room mirror. It is accompanied by a letter from the photographer to the consignor dated 31 August 1994. with —an unrelated color print titled “Stripes-Paris-1960,” 6 1 / 2 x 4 1 / 2 inches to sight, signed and captioned by Leonard and a group of 8 photographic posters of musicians, 16 x 20 inches, each signed by photographer Lee Tanner in the image, uncaptioned, with his stickers on verso.