Duke Ellington, in profile, half-smiling at something just out of frame. The face is built in gold and deep umber over a rich blue ground, and the hair is drawn strand by strand with a patience that gives the whole painting its stillness.

My grandfather, Dave Coleman, painted this. He was a jazz drummer — Seattle’s first-call player for three decades, and before that a young man on the road with Freddie Slack, Red Nichols and Harry James. He painted the musicians of his own world because they were his world.

This is the finest painting in his archive, and the largest we can print from the original.

• Print size: 16 × 20 inches
• Original: Painted by Dave Coleman (1923–1989)
• Archival giclée on fine art paper
• Reproduced from the original painting, held in the family

Every print in this collection helps bring work out of family houses and onto walls where it can be seen. Read about Dave Coleman →