Hale Woodruff and Robert Blackburn, The Printmaking Workshop
Blind Musician
1935, printed 1998
Scroll
- Artist: Hale Woodruff
- Printer/Publisher: Robert Blackburn, The Printmaking Workshop
Blind Musician
1935, printed 1998
Physical Qualities
Woodcut, Sheet: 489 x 381 mm. (19 1/4 x 15 in.)
Image: 152 x 102 mm. (6 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Elnora, Inc. in Honor of E. Thomas Williams, Jr. and Auldlyn Higgins Williams, and in Memory of Dr. I. Bradshaw Higgins and Hilda Moseley Higgins
Object Number
2006.67
These four prints are from a series of works by Hale Woodruff that were reprinted in the 1990s by the master printer Robert Blackburn. Though his subject matter ranges widely, Woodruff frequently focused on scenes of everyday life, telling a social reality in small moments. He had a particular interest in exploring the topic of poverty faced by Black
Americans in the southern United States. In "Coming Home", for example, a figure in heels and dress ascends the front steps of an unsteady house made of dramatic curves and angles.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2006; Elnora, Inc., Sag Harbour, New York
Morgan Dowty, BMA, "1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA," June 13 - October 28, 2018.
Markings: Chopmark: Hale Woodruff
