Hale Woodruff
Hale Woodruff
Painter, Printer, Educator (1900-1980)
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"It's very important to keep your artistic level at the highest possible range of development and yet make your work convey a telling quality in terms of what we are as people."
Hale Woodruff was born on August 26, 1900 and died on September 6, 1980. Born in Illinois but he mostly grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He studied art at the Herron School of Art and Design, Chicago Institute of Art and at the Harvard Fogg Art Museum. In 1926 he won an award from the Harmon Foundation, which allowed him to study art in Paris for four years.
Due to the Great Depression he worked as an art teacher to support his family. Later on he became that art director at Atlanta University. In 1936 Woodruff went to study under famed muralist Diego Rivera, from there he began his work on one of his most famous pieces the three-panel Amistad Mutiny murals (1938). The murals show the events of the 1839 Mende slave revolt on the Spanish Amistad ship.
Hale Woodruff was born on August 26, 1900 and died on September 6, 1980. Born in Illinois but he mostly grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He studied art at the Herron School of Art and Design, Chicago Institute of Art and at the Harvard Fogg Art Museum. In 1926 he won an award from the Harmon Foundation, which allowed him to study art in Paris for four years.
Due to the Great Depression he worked as an art teacher to support his family. Later on he became that art director at Atlanta University. In 1936 Woodruff went to study under famed muralist Diego Rivera, from there he began his work on one of his most famous pieces the three-panel Amistad Mutiny murals (1938). The murals show the events of the 1839 Mende slave revolt on the Spanish Amistad ship.
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