Lot 744 : Hale Woodruff (American, 1900-1980), "The Knobs of Southern Indiana", c.1949; oil/panel, 19" x 24",
Auction Location: United States of America - 2003
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Description:
signed and titled, provenance. Highly important African-American painter. Woodruff grew up in Nashville, TN. Interested in art at an early age, he moved to Indianapolis to work, saving money to attend the John Herron Art Institute, which he did in 1920. It was there that he met W.E. Scott. Woodruff struggled financially throughout the 1920s, but won a Harmon Foundation Prize and entered some works in the Hoosier Salon in Chicago. In 1927, Woodruff went to France, and eventually met H.O. Tanner. He returned to the U.S. in 1931, to teach at the newly opened Atlanta University. He exhibited at the World’s Fair New York (1939), Boston Museum, Whitney Museum, High Museum, Studio M (Harlem), and New York University. This is a rare Indiana subject by this important African-American painter.
