Hale Woodruff
Sunday Promenade from Hale Woodruff: Selections from the Atlanta Period 1931–1946
1931–46, published 1996
One from a portfolio of eight linoleum cuts
Not on view
After living as an expatriate in Paris for many years, Woodruff accepted a position as chair of the newly established art department at Atlanta University in Georgia. There, he adopted a realistic style to highlight the harsh living conditions that his fellow African Americans endured in the post-slavery United States. With funds from the Works Progress Administration, he produced a series of woodcuts that exposed the South’s “peculiar rundown landscapes [and] its social and economic problems.” In the same scenes, he also demonstrated the resilience of the people who lived there, as they worked, rested, and gathered as a community.
2022
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A period of African American literary, artistic, and intellectual activity centered in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, spanning from the 1920s to the mid-1930s.
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