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HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980)
Selections from the Atlanta Period
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Portfolio of 8 linoleum cuts, circa 1931-1946. Each 482x380 mm; 19x15 inches (sheet), full margins,
loose as issued.
One of 300 numbered sets. Each numbered 297/300 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Robert
Blackburn’s PrintmakingWorkshop, NewYork, in 1996, with the blind stamp lower left. Published
by the artist’s wife and estate, with the blind stamp lower right.
Includes:
African Headdress
*
Old Church
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Coming Home
*
Relics
*
By Parties Unknown
*
Giddap
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Trusty on a Mule
*
Sunday Promenade
. Each very good, dark impressions.With the original printed
blue portfolio folder.
This set is found in numerous NewYork collections, including the Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum
in Harlem and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
[4,000/6,000]