Description: This is a very cool Vintage African American Black Jazz RAGTIME Music Fashion Oil Painting on Artist Board, depicting an elegantly dressed African American couple, wearing the latest fashion of the 1910's Ragtime music era. This form of popular music was the predominant genre from about 1899 - 1917 and flourished in the American South. The gentleman on the left wears a silk top hat and puffs on a cigarette, with stylized smoke rings rising above his head. He wears a dandified suit with a high white collar and long coat tails. The lady on the right wears a fashionable white hat, and a white mink stole. Above them in bold, stylized font it reads: RAGTIME. Signed: "Bere" in the lower right corner. I could not find any information on this artist, but perhaps you know more about them or their work? The style of this painting is reminiscent of the illustrated Ragtime sheet music covers of the 1910's. This piece likely dates to the 1990's. Approximately 17 1/8 x 41 1/8 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 11 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches. The painting is in good condition, however the frame has several areas of chipping and scuffing throughout (please see photos.) Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. This would be the perfect gift for any Ragtime or Jazz music lover! If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About this Artwork: Ragtimemusic Ragtime, propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music from about 1899 to 1917. Ragtime evolved in the playing of honky-tonk pianists along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in the last decades of the 19th century. It was influenced by minstrel-show songs, African American banjo styles, and syncopated (off-beat) dance rhythms of the cakewalk, and also elements of European music. Ragtime found its characteristic expression in formally structured piano compositions. The regularly accented left-hand beat, in 4/4 or 2/4 time, was opposed in the right hand by a fast, bouncingly syncopated melody, that gave the music its powerful forward impetus. Scott Joplin, called the “King of Ragtime,” published the most successful of the early rags, “The Maple Leaf Rag,” in 1899. Joplin, who considered ragtime a permanent and serious branch of classical music, composed hundreds of short pieces, a set of études, and operas in the style. Other important performers were, in St. Louis, Louis Chauvin and Thomas M. Turpin (father of St. Louis ragtime) and, in New Orleans, Tony Jackson. Though ragtime’s heyday was relatively short-lived, the music influenced the later development of jazz. Ragtime experienced occasional revivals, most notably in the 1970s. During that decade pianist Joshua Rifkin released the acclaimed album Scott Joplin: Piano Rags (1970), and Marvin Hamlisch adapted Joplin’s music for the score of the hugely popular movie The Sting (1973). Hamlisch won an Academy Award for his work, and his version of Joplin’s "The Entertainer” earned a Grammy Award and was a hit song.
Price: 975 USD
Location: Orange, California
End Time: 2024-08-26T15:13:37.000Z
Shipping Cost: 25 USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: Bere
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: Bere
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Period: Contemporary (1970 - 2020)
Title: "RAGTIME"
Material: Oil, Artist Board
Region of Origin: California, USA
Framing: Framed
Subject: Community Life, Concerts, Costumes, Figures, Ladies, Men, Musical Bands & Groups, Musical Instruments, Silhouettes, Women, Working Life, World War I (1914-1918), Jazz, Ragtime
Type: Painting
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 41 1/8 in
Theme: Americana, Art, Cities & Towns, Continents & Countries, Cultures & Ethnicities, Domestic & Family Life, Events & Festivals, Exhibitions, Fashion, History, Music, People, Portrait, Social History
Style: Americana, Folk Art, Outsider Art, Portraiture
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 17 1/8 in
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1990-1999
