August 26th is Hale Woodruff Day!!! "Hale Woodruff was a black artist who sought to express his heritage in his abstract painting. Of his artwork he said: "I think abstraction is just another kind of reality. And although you may see a realistic subject like a glass or a table or a chair, you have to transpose or transform that into a picture, and my whole feeling is that to get the specatator involved it has to extend that vision" . . ." (Herskovic 358). Hale Woodruff was born in 1900 in Cairo, Illinois. After high school he drew political cartoons part-time for the black newspaper, the "Indianapolis Ledger". His art studies included the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis; Art Institute of Chicago;, Harvard's Fogg Museum School; and Académie Moderne in Paris with Herny Ossawa Tanner in 1927." Thank you Mr. Woodruff for all of your contributions and inspiration! Please click the link below and learn more about Hale Woodruff.
http://www.rogallery.com/Woodruff_Hale/Woodruff-bio.htm
“I believe that every artist whatever his racial or national identity should interpret his life experience and beliefs in his own individual manner.” - Hale Woodruff
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