Hale Woodruff

By Amber Vargo

Facts• Woodruff was born on August 26, 1900, in Cairo, Illinois, to George

and Augustin Woodruff. His father died while he was a child, and his mother took him to live in East Nashville, Tennessee, where he attended elementary and high school.

• He showed a interest in art while in school and was a cartoonist in the school paper.

• After he finished high school he attended several different colleges • Studied art in France with Henry Ossawa Tanner, who was

considered the foremost black artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

• Became a art teacher at Atlanta University • He also participated in The Atlanta annual exhibition and helped

make it so popular

Georgia Landscape

When Hale Woodruff was going through a stage of depression he consistently turned to the Georgia landscape for inspiration. He ended up painting a painting called Georgia Landscape.

I personally like this

painting because of its

strange look.

The Art of the Negro

In this painting Hale Woodruff shows all the different roles that African Americans play in society. He shows a African American Artist, Priest, Writer and a farmer.

Monkey Man 2

This is a good example of Hale’s abstract art. I truthfully do not see a monkey, a man, or understand the need for a 2. whether I understand it or not both the name and the drawing technique interested me.

His Goal

His original goal was to be a famous landscape painter in the tradition of the Indiana artists of Brown County. Later he decided to dedicate his paintings toward African American culture and inspire others.

Quotes

• “I think abstractly because I think that abstraction is another kind of reality. And although [as an artist] you may see a realistic subject like a glass or table or chair, you have to…transform that into a picture, and my whole feeling is that to get the spectator involved, [art] has to extend his vision, not…verify that which he already knows, but extend his vision and his way of seeing so that there is a wider experience open…to him, and this is the way I work.”

Work cited

• http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Hale_Woodruff.aspx

• http://www.michaelrosenfeldart.com/artists/artists_represented.php?i=167&m=biography

• http://www.davidrumsey.com/amica/amico1081289-115188.html

• http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701&va=hale+woodruff+paintings