Hale Woodruff

Hale Aspacio Woodruff ( bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli August bɛɣu pishi ni ayɔbu dali yuuni 1900 , ka o kani silimiingoli September dabaayɔbu dali , yuuni 1980) o daa nyɛla America nucheeni tuun tumdi so ŋun tuma jendi silimiingi ni bɔli shɛli ni murals la, ni peentibu n ti pahi pireentibu.

O bilim ni, o daŋ nti pahi o shikuru chandi taarihi

Woodruff nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tinŋyuli booni Cairo, Illinois, silimiingoli August bɛɣu pishi ni ayɔbu dali, yuuni 1900. O nyɛla ŋun zoogi gbansabila be Nashville, Tennessee nuuni, ni ka o daa pili shikuru chandi. O nyɛla ŋun chaŋ shikuru be tiŋyuli booni Indianapolis ka di yuli booniHerron School of Art and Design , Art Institute of Chicago, n ti pahi Harvard Fogg Art Museum.

Exhibition history

The Banjo Player was painted by Hale Woodruff in Paris in 1929. The original is now at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The image has been called important, because it "reframes Black representation" shifting the viewer from the established Jim Crow image to an image put forth by an African American. Woodruff's painting counters "racist tropes", showing a Black musician playing with competence and dignity. While in Paris, Woodruff met Henry Ossawa Tanner, painter of The Banjo Lesson (another work which showed African Americans playing the banjo with dignity).

Source:

Solo exhibitions

1976

• Ancestral Memory

the Studio Museum in Harlem

Group exhibitions

Source:

1985

• Hidden Heritage, Bellevue Art Museum and Art Association of America

1976

• Two Centuries of Black Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1971

• Newark Museum

1967

• New York University
• San Diego Art Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• City College of New York

1958

• New Bertha Schaffer Gallery, New York

1955

• University of North Carolina

1951

• Atlanta University

Karimbu nim yaha

• David C Driskell; Leonard Simon; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Two Centuries of Black American Art, (Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1976) ISBN 0-87587-070-8, ISBN 978-0-87587-070-0
• Hale Woodruff 50 Years of His Art, (New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1979) OCLC 17813325
• Samella Lewis, African American Art and Artists, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) ISBN 0-520-08788-7, ISBN 978-0-520-08788-0, ISBN 978-0-520-08532-9
• Kenkeleba Gallery (New York, N.Y.), The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945–1975, (New York: Kenkeleba House, ©1991) OCLC 30743648
• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey, Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4. pp. 358–361
• Crystal Britton, African American Art: The Long Struggle, (New Line Books, 1998)
• Samella Lewis, African American Art and Artists, (University of California Press, 1994)
• Sharon Patton, African-American Art, (Oxford University Press, 1998)
• Romare Bearden, A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present, (Pantheon, 1993)

External links

• "Amistad Murals", Talladega College