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Duke Ellington by Gordon Parks — VisualArtsDB

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Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

1950

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 22.9 × 34.3 cm (9 1/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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