As he looked at the rectangular blocks of blue and black, he tells me he «heard Louis Armstrong's gravel -
strewn voice singing, «What did I do to be so black and blue?
When Glenn Ligon visited the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, to consider doing a project, he was looking at Ellsworth Kelly's monumental painting on aluminum, entitled Blue Black (2000), when he «heard Louis Armstrong's gravel -
strewn voice singing, «What did I do to be so black and blue?
click here to download PDF by Brian Prugh When Glenn Ligon visited the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, to consider doing a project, he was looking at Ellsworth Kelly's monumental painting on aluminum, entitled Blue Black (2000), when he «heard Louis Armstrong's gravel -
strewn voice singing, «What did I do to be so black -LSB-...]