About the Artwork
Ancestral Memory
mid 20th century
Hale Woodruff
1900-1980
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 60 1/8 × 52 1/8 inches (152.7 × 132.4 cm) Framed: 62 1/2 × 54 7/16 × 2 1/4 inches (158.8 × 138.3 × 5.7 cm)
Paintings
African American Art
Founders Society Purchase, African Art Gallery Committee Fund
78.87
Courtesy of the Estate of Hale Woodruff/Elnora, Inc.; and courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Markings
Signed, lower left: H. Woodruff
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Provenance
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Taylor, William E., and Warkel, Harriet G. A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African Americans. Indianapolis, 1996, pp. 88-90 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 5 (1978): 323, no. 37 (ill.).
Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks. Exh. cat., Delaware Art Museum. Wilmington, 2021, p. 6 pl. 1 (ill.).
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Courtesy of the Estate of Hale Woodruff/Elnora, Inc.; and courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Hale Woodruff, Ancestral Memory, mid 20th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, African Art Gallery Committee Fund, 78.87.
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