Blind Musician
Gift of Auldlyn Higgins Williams and E. T. Williams Jr., 2014
Catalogue
- Year
- 1935
- Dimensions
- 20 3/4 × 16 7/16 in. (52.7 × 41.8 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Hale Woodruff
Artist
Painting
Hale Woodruff was an American painter and muralist whose work bridged modernist abstraction and social narrative across the twentieth century. Working primarily in oil and tempera, he created large-scale public murals alongside easel paintings that engaged themes of African American experience, labor, and dignity. His practice evolved from figuration toward increasing abstraction in his later decades, informed by his engagement with African art and modernist color theory. Woodruff taught at several institutions and remained a significant figure in American modernism from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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Record
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- Hale Woodruff
- Year
- 1935
- Dimensions
- 20 3/4 × 16 7/16 in. (52.7 × 41.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1935-162699
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified