Hale Woodruff
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Hale Aspacio Woodruff was an American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints.
Mutiny on the Amistad by Hale Woodruff, 1938
The Banjo Player was painted by Hale Woodruff in Paris in 1929. The original is now at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The image has been called important, because it "reframes Black representation" shifting the viewer from the established Jim Crow image to an image put forth by an African American. Woodruff's painting counters "racist tropes", showing a Black musician playing with competence and dignity. While in Paris, Woodruff met Henry Ossawa Tanner, painter of
Charles Alston
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Charles Henry "Spinky" Alston was an American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was active in the Harlem Ren
Hale Woodruff
…Development (1949), was one of two panels commissioned by the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company in Los Angeles; the other panel was created by Charles Alston. Woodruff also completed six panels around 1950-1951 called Art of the Negro, now at the Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries. In 1942, even with…
Alston in 1939
Alston's illustration of African-American historian Carter G. Woodson for the Office of War Information
Modern Medicine (1936) at the Harlem Hospital
Artworks Promoting the War Effort and Original Sketches by Charles Alston, compiled ca. 1942 - ca. 1945