Carmel Vitullo Limited Edition Photograph Print "Jack Teagarden"

Item Details

Carmel Vitullo (American; b. 1925)
Jack Teagarden
Digital scan of original 1958 negative
Titled and numbered 1/20 to photo verso
Signed to photo verso
Numbered 1/20 to lower left of mat
Signed to lower right of mat
Inscribed to mat verso
11.5’ W x 7.5’ H

A limited edition photograph print titled Jack Teagarden by American photographer Carmel Vitullo (b. 1925). From the artist’s Newport Jazz Series, this archival print was made from a digital scan of the original 1958 negative. The artist captures a transient moment featuring the musician playing the trombone alongside other band members on stage. The work is signed, titled, and dated to the photo verso. It is presented between two layers of white matting and remains unframed. The work is also signed in graphite to the lower right of the mat and numbered to the lower left. A descriptive label and a stamp from Bert Gallery are present to the mat verso.

Carmel Vitullo was raised in Federal Hill, a small Italian community of Rhode Island. After studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, she pursued photography at the New York Institute of Photography. Particularly inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, she adopted a snapshot, documentary aesthetic photographing various neighborhoods, communities, and people, including jazz icons Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Vitullo describes her work as ‘street photography,’ capturing the vernacular beauty in the fleeting moments and local subjects of the 1950s and 60s urban landscape. Vitullo’s debut was in The Family of Man exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1955. Her work has also been represented by the RISD Museum, the Bert Gallery, the Newport Art Museum, and the Block Island Historical Society, among other institutions.

Condition

- faint red smudge mark present to upper central area of mat; minor wear along mat edges and mat verso.

Dimensions

- measurement of mat; visible image measures approximately 11.5" W x 7.5" H.

Item #

18DCC299-010