Artist: Hale Woodruff (1900 - 1980)
Nationality: American
Movement: African American School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Raised in Tennessee, Hale Woodruff studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and won a scholarship that enabled him to travel to Paris and enroll at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. He then returned to the United States, teaching at the Atlanta and New York Univerisities. Woodruff’s large murals depicted events in African American history such as the Amistad Mutiny. Later in his lifetime, Woodruff abandoned his representational style for Abstract Expressionism.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (57)
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Hale Woodruff - Twilight 1926 oil on pressed paper The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Hale Woodruff - The Valley c. 1935 conte crayon Arkansas Arts Center American
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Hale Woodruff - Sunday Promenade 1931-46 linocut Tufts University Art Gallery American
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Hale Woodruff - Picking Cotton c. 1936 Oil on Masonite High Museum of Art American
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Hale Woodruff - Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln Discussing Emancipation 1942-43 tempera on masonite Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Frederick W. Macmonnies - Nathan Hale 1890 bronze The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Philip Leslie Hale, American, 1865-1931 Landscape about 1890 Oil on canvas 46.04 x 55.88 cm
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Philip Leslie Hale, American, 1865-1931 Girls in Sunlight 1895 Oil on canvas 73.66 x 99.06
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Philip Leslie Hale, American, 1865-1931 French Farmhouse about 1893 Oil on canvas 64.77 x 81.28
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Hale and Sons Mug pewter circa 1852
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Philip Leslie Hale, American, 1865-1931 Self Portrait about 1915 Oil on canvas 76.83 x 63.82
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Walker Evans - Bud Fields with his Wife and Daughter, Hale County, Alabama 1936 gelatin silver print Carnegie Museum of Art American
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Kenneth J. Hale Zealot Color linoleum cut 1982
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Firth & Hale Piano satinwood and rosewood 1800 - 1850
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Artist: Walker Evans Title: Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama
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Burroughs Family, Hale County, Alabama
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Lillian Westcott Hale - Agnes and Her Cat 1917 oil on canvas Florence Griswold Museum American
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Ellen Day Hale - June c. 1893 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Ellen Day Hale - Lilies c. 1905 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Albert Bierstadt, American (born in Germany), 1830-1902 Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains 1859 Oil on
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Textile Design for Series of Doilies, ’Haku the Master Boy’; Numbers 7 and 8; ’Haku’s Hale’ and ’Haku the Luina’, Elza Sunderland (Hungary, 1903 - 1991-06-22) , 1946, Gouache and pencil on paper
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Philip Leslie Hale - A Family Affair before 1913 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Ellen Day Hale - Milk Delivery, Cairo 1930 oil on artist's boar National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Edwin Hale Lincoln - Whalers Rousseau and Desdemona 1889 platinum print Peabody Essex Museum American
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Philip Leslie Hale, American, 1865-1931 Folly Cove about 1900 Oil on canvas board 22.54 x
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Ellen Day Hale - Untitled (Woman with Cart) c. 1930 oil on panel National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Ellen Day Hale - Gabrielle de Veaux Clements c. 1930 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Whole-cloth crib quilt Cover; Quilt English England, exported to U.S.A., about 1761 Silk satin, quilted
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Ellen Day Hale - Untitled (European Street with Mountains) c. 1922 oil on canvasboard National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Aegis of Isis Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, about 945–712 B.C. Egypt Bronze with
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Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama, 1936 Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)Depicted: Alabama, United States
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Hippopotamus Egyptian Second Intermediate Period, 1630-1539 B.C. Egypt Faience Height x width x length: 10.4
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Eugenio Lucas y Padilla Allegory of Justice oil on wood 19th century
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Lambert Hitchcock Side chair mixed hardwoods, paint, and rush 1826 - 1829
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Lambert Hitchcock Side chair mixed hardwoods, paint, and rush 1826 - 1829
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Charles-Francois Lacroix de Marseille Eruption of Mount Vesuvius oil on canvas 1762
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The Beach at Honfleur, Claude Monet (Flanders, Bréda, 1840 - 1926) , 1864-1866, Oil on canvas
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Melchior d'Hontecoeter Wall paper and reproduction: The Vicksburg Daily Citizen 07/02/1863 wall paper 1885
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Aert van der Neer Winter Scene with Frozen Canal oil on canvas 17th century
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Pieter Claesz Soutman Still Life oil on panel 1647
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Melchior d'Hontecoeter Wall paper and reproduction: The Vicksburg Daily Citizen 07/02/1863 color woodcut (relief print) 1885
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#17, Merry Alpern (United States, New York, New York City, born 1955) , 1994, Gelatin-silver print
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Jacques Villon Devant un Guignol Drypoint in two tones 1909
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Rosalba Giovanna Carriera Portrait of a Lady as Diana pastel on laid paper 18th century
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria Netherlandish Painter, fourth quarter 15th centuryOil on wood; 16 1/8 x
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Portrait of a Woman Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792)Oil on canvas; 29 5/8 x 24
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Baseball About 1877 Charcoal on paper Image: : 34.9 x
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Sheep Pasture 1857 Oil on canvas 101.6 x 81.28 cm
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A Princess Visiting a Forest Shrine at Night, Mir Kalan Khan (attributed to) (India, 1730 - 1780)  (Artist), circa 1760, Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller about 1917-20 Oil on
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Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, Dutch, 1628-29–1682 Woodland Vistas Oil on canvas 67.0 x 53.7 cm
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Marked by John Samuel Hunt Epergne London, England England, (London), about 1848 Silver Weight: 4,862
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LA FAMILLE BURTON ; DIT AUSSI SCENE D'INTERIEUR A L'ECUREUIL (1755 entre ; 1760 et) by MERCIER Philippe
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Madame Clemetine Valensi Stora (L'Algerienne) oil on canvas 1870
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Unidentified artist, Austrian (Tyrolese), 1st quarter 15th century Coronation of the Virgin with the Holy
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Claude Monet Waves Breaking oil on canvas 1881
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Edouard Manet Bateaux de Peche sur la Plage, St. Pierre-en-porte, Normandy oil on canvas 1873

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (9)
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Detroit Institute of Art: A Cultural Heritage: Selected Works of African American Art from the DIA's Collection
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Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Bridging the Border: Shared Themes in Mexican and U.S. Art 1900 – 1950
Four themes: The City, Rural Traditions, Responses to European Modernism, and Protest and Persuasion break the show into sections that highlight areas of exchange during the first fifty years of the 20th century. Each category compares works by ...
Denise Bibro Fine Art: Summer Selections 2009
Featured in the exhibition are:
*Eunice Agar
*David Barnett
*Lea Barton
Daniel Borlandelli
*Dusty Boynton
*Giorgio Brogi
*Jeremy Comins
*Sara Crisp
*Lisa Dinhofer
Josephine Haden
*David Herman...
ASU Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center: Rhapsody: Selections from Valley Collections
Rhapsody includes works by Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Ray Charles, Robert Colescott, Renée Cox, Charles Gaines, Sam Gilliam, Eugene Grigsby, ...
Atlanta College o f Art: John Bankston: Temptation and Desire
Bankston appropriates the familiar stylistic language of coloring books to innovative ends: in his hands coloring becomes a metaphor for identity and filling in the lines carries weight as a cultural act. Drawing on a variety of sources -- 19th-ce...
Claremont Museum of Art: Velocity 2007: Contemporary Art Auction to Feature Work by Ellen Jantzen
Artists, who generously contributed artworks for this event:

Fumiko Amano
Dawn Arrowsmith
Ellen Babcock
Karl Benjamin
Barbara Beretich
Enrique Castrejón
Steve Comba
Hollis Cooper
Zoe Crosher
P...
Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center: Tony Gray: The New Black is Black
Starring the resplendently Afro-ed Panthers in their bell-bottomed glory, the collages capture the flair and un-self-conscious enthusiasm of teen bedroom walls — the homemade stage-set of American adolescence — circa 1973. Patterning nostalgia ...
Baltimore Museum of Art: Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris
“This is an exciting opportunity to showcase these well-known paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner alongside works from the BMA’s outstanding collection,” said BMA Director Doreen Bolger. Tanner spent most of his career as an expatriate in Paris...
Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center: Mélik Ohanian: You're mY destinY
Ohanian's oeuvre includes Island of an Island, a project on chance and encounter. While searching the internet for virgin territory, seeking places without national or cultural identity, Ohanian stumbled on the island of Surtsey, near Iceland, ...

Further Artwork and Information:

Hale Woodruff Online
Hale Aspacio Woodruff Prints, Posters and Frames at Art.com
Hale Woodruff Home Page
Hale Woodruff (1900 - 1980) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Hale Woodruff Oral History Interview Conducted by Al Murray for the Archives of American Art, 1968
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