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HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980)
Celestial Gate
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Color screenprint on Arches paper, 1977. 507x608 mm; 18
3
/
4
x21
1
/
2
inches, full margins. Proof, aside
from an edition of approximately 175. Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “To the Printmaking
Workshop - with appreciation-” in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Ed O’Connell Photographics,
NewYork, with the blind stamp lower right.
One of the artist’s best known series of paintings,Woodruff ’s
Celestial Gate
works incorporate the
forms derived from Asante gold weights and the doors of dwellings of Dogon chiefs in Mali with
modernist abstraction. One of his paintings from the
Celestial Gate
series is in the collection of the
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
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