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Title:View of Atlanta
Artist:Hale Woodruff (American, Cairo, Illinois 1900–1980 New York)
Date:1935
Medium:Linocut
Dimensions:14 9/16 × 12 3/16 in. (37 × 31 cm)
Classification:Prints
Credit Line:Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 1999
Object Number:1999.529.201
Inscription: Inscribed (lower left, in graphite): View of Atlanta; signed (lower right, in graphite): Hale Woodruff
[Sragow Gallery, New York, until 1992; sold on January 1, 1992 to Williams]; Reba and Dave Williams, New York (1992–99; their gift to MMA)
Newark Museum, held jointly at the Equitable Gallery, New York. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," December 10, 1992–February 28, 1993, no. 103.
Long Beach Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," June 4–August 8, 1993, no. 103.
Cambridge, England. Fitzwilliam Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," October 5–December 19, 1993, no. 103.
Albany. New York State Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," January 5–March 13, 1994, no. 103.
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," April 7–June 12, 1994, no. 103.
Louisville. Speed Art Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," July 12–September 4, 1994, no. 103.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," October 9–December 4, 1994, no. 103.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," January 4–February 26, 1995, no. 103.
Charleston. Gibbes Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," March 26–May 21, 1995, no. 103.
Miami Beach. Bass Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," June 18–August 13, 1995, no. 103.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," September 10–November 5, 1995, no. 103.
Mobile, Ala. Fine Arts Museum of the South. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," December 3, 1995–January 28, 1996, no. 103.
Brooklyn Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," February 25–April 22, 1996, no. 103.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," May 17–July 14, 1996, no. 103.
Dallas Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," August 9–October 6, 1996, no. 103.
Saint Louis Art Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," November 1, 1996–January 2, 1997, no. 103.
Atlanta. High Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," January 31–March 30, 1997, no. 103.
Atlanta. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. "Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy," January 18–May 12, 2007, no. 31.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s," September 5–December 10, 2023, unnumbered cat. (pl. 77).
Alain Locke. The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. Washington, D.C., 1940, ill. p. 58 (unknown edition), calls it "Returning Home" and dates it 1939.
Cedric Dover. American Negro Art. Greenwich, Conn., 1960, ill. p. 121 (unknown edition, courtesy Harold Benjamin, London), calls it "Returning Home" and dates it 1939.
Richard J. Powell. Impressions / Expressions: Black American Graphics. Exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, 1979, p. 31, ill. p. 42 (unknown edition, courtesy of the artist), calls it "Returning Home" and dates it 1939.
Mary Schmidt Campbell inHale Woodruff: 50 Years of His Art. Exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, 1979, pp. 32–33, 96 (unknown edition, collection of the artist), calls it "Returning Home".
Ronald Schnell. Graphic Art by Afro-American Artists from the Collections of Tougaloo College. Exh. cat., Tougaloo College. [Jackson, Miss.], 1985, unpaginated, no. 64-001, ill. (not this edition), dates it 1939.
Reba and Dave Williams inAlone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–40s by African-American Artists; From the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Exh. cat., Newark Museum. New York, 1993, pp. 30, 32, no. 103, fig. 21.
Lowery Stokes Sims inAlone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–40s by African-American Artists; From the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Exh. cat., Newark Museum. New York, 1993, p. 3.
Leslie King-Hammond inAlone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–40s by African-American Artists; From the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Exh. cat., Newark Museum. New York, 1993, p. 19, notes that this work was "retitled 'Going Home' in its 1981 re-edition".
"News of the Print World: People & Places." Print Collector's Newsletter 23 (January–February 1993), ill. p. 224.
Leo Twiggs. "Woodruff, Hale (Aspacio)." St. James Guide to Black Artists. Ed. Thomas Riggs. Detroit, 1997, ill. p. 586 (unknown edition), calls it "Returning Home".
Richard J. Powell and Jock Reynolds. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Andover, Mass., 1999, p. 239, no. 264, ill. p. 238 (Collection Howard University Gallery of Art), call it "Returning Home" and date it about 1935–39.
Mary Ann Calo inLife Impressions: 20th-Century African American Prints from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Dewey F. Mosby. Exh. cat., Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University. Hamilton, N. Y., 2001, p. 12 (not this edition), calls it "Going Home".
Dewey F. Mosby and Jane Seney inLife Impressions: 20th-Century African American Prints from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Dewey F. Mosby. Exh. cat., Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University. Hamilton, N. Y., 2001, pp. 57–58, 70, no. 36, fig. 36 (MMA 1999.529.200), calls it "Going Home".
Lisa Gail Collins inAfrican-American Artists, 1929–1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2003, pp. 32, 38, no. 13, ill. (not this edition, see MMA 1999.529.200), calls it "Going Home".
Lisa Mintz Messinger inAfrican-American Artists, 1929–1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2003, p. 35 (not this edition).
Helen Langa. Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York. Berkeley, 2004, pp. 139–40, fig. 65.
Lisa Goff. Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor. Cambridge, Mass., 2016, p. 287 n. 60.
Allison Rudnick. Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2023, pp. 26, 197, colorpl. 77.
Rachel Mustalish in Allison Rudnick. Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2023, p. 52.
Mitchell Abidor. "Hope and Despair in the American Socialist Movements of the 1930s: 'Art for the Millions' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." publicseminar.org. October 2, 2023.
How did a decade of unprecedented financial strife, radical social upheaval, and technological innovation shape art and cultural identity in the United States?
Hale Woodruff (American, Cairo, Illinois 1900–1980 New York)
1935
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