Thursday, July 10, 2014

...Chet


 
12x16 oil on canvas art board
 
Chet Baker was a young jazzman in the early 1950's best known for his rendition of  'My Funny Valentine.'   He struggled with heroin addiction most of his adult live and was found beneath a seedy Amsterdam hotel window dead at age 59.   He was ravaged by the drug and likely committed suicide.

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