An old man in a flat cap sits on a worn red stool with a snare drum across his knee, one stick raised, a gold cymbal and a battered bass drum beside him. The whole painting is worked in soft browns and greens, like a memory of a room rather than the room itself.

Dave Coleman painted this, and he was a drummer himself — the man hundreds of Seattle drummers came to study with. He knew exactly how a snare sits on a knee and how a player leans into a stool. That knowledge is why the posture is right.

If you play, or love someone who does, this one lands differently than a stock photograph of a drum kit ever could.

• Print size: 11 × 14 inches
• Original: Painted by Dave Coleman (1923–1989), signed
• Archival giclée on fine art paper

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