id:			160184
accession number:	1998.11.2
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.11.2
updated:		2022-09-22 10:37:46.840000

Selections from the Atlanta Period 1931-1946 portfolio: Coming Home, 1931–1946. Hale Aspacio Woodruff (American, 1900–1980). Linoleum cut; sheet: 48.5 x 37.9 cm (19 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.); image: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro 1998.11.2 © VAGA, New York, NY

title:				Coming Home
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series:				Selections from the Atlanta Period 1931-1946 portfolio
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creation date:			1931–1946
creation date earliest:		1931
creation date latest:		1936
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro
copyright:			© VAGA, New York, NY

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	linoleum cut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Linocut
type:		Portfolio
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CREATORS

* Hale Aspacio Woodruff (American, 1900–1980)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 48.5 x 37.9 cm (19 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.); Image: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
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	description:	LANA PUR FIL cream wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	numbered 13/300 in graphite, printer's blind stamp in lower left corner; artist's blind stamp in lower right corner: (©Hale Woodruff)

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* The Cleveland Museum of Art (1/26/2014 - 5/18/2014); "Our Stories: African American Prints and Drawings"

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PROVENANCE

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wall description: 
This scene of a working-class woman returning to a ramshackle house after a long day's work dramatically expresses the abysmal poverty and bigotry faced by African American Southerners. Their plight led to the migration of nearly 250,000 black farmworkers to northern urban industrial centers by 1918. In the 1930s and '40s, their descendants, exploring their past, rediscovered the South as a place of beauty, strength, vitality, violence, and tradition. Woodruff, who was raised in Tennessee but had moved to Indiana and studied in Paris, went back to the South in 1931 to teach at Atlanta University, where he remained until 1945.
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