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Hale Woodruff (American, 1900–1980). Blue Landscape, 1968. Oil on canvas, 36 × 42 1/4 in. (91.4 × 107.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomas Williams, Jr., 87.86. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 87.86_PS11.jpg)
Hale Woodruff (American, 1900–1980). Blue Landscape, 1968. Oil on canvas, 36 × 42 1/4 in. (91.4 × 107.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomas Williams, Jr., 87.86. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 87.86_bw.jpg)
Blue Landscape
Hale Woodruff
Contemporary Art
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, A Quiet Place
Unlike the majority of American painters who were engaged with gestural abstraction at mid-century, Hale Woodruff remained rooted in an artistic process that originated with traditional notions of subject matter. A leading African American artist of the period, Woodruff had devoted his energies emphatically to subjects relevant to the black experience and the civil rights effort beginning in the 1930s. After his move to New York in 1946 and a decisive turn to abstraction, he executed numerous landscapes such as this one, in which the forms are intended to convey the character of a particular place and time of day.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1968
DIMENSIONS
36 × 42 1/4 in. (91.4 × 107.3 cm)
frame: 39 3/4 × 45 1/8 × 2 7/16 in. (101 × 114.7 × 6.2 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Lower right: "H. Woodruff"
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
87.86
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomas Williams, Jr.
PROVENANCE
1980, inherited from the artist by Theresa Ada Baker Woodruff; before 1987, purchased from Theresa Ada Baker Woodruff by E. Thomas Williams, Jr. and Auldlyn Higgins Williams (Mrs. E. Thomas Williams, Jr.) of New York, NY; 1987, gift of E. Thomas Williams, Jr. and Auldlyn Higgins Williams to the Brooklyn Museum.
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MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Hale Woodruff (American, 1900–1980). Blue Landscape, 1968. Oil on canvas, 36 × 42 1/4 in. (91.4 × 107.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomas Williams, Jr., 87.86. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 87.86_PS11.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 87.86_PS11.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2021
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