<I>Untitled (Green Landscape)</I>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1969
name: label: Created by
content: Hale Woodruff, American, 1900 - 1980
notes: label: Caption
content: "I think all art if it’s worth its salt has got to be universal. But it comes from a local source, you see.... It can be as local as all get-out, but it has to have this transcendental quality in order for it to be universal…. And this is the important thing."
label: Caption
content: Hale Woodruff is perhaps best known as a figurative and mural painter whose work both documented the social conditions and celebrated the achievements of African American life and history. However, he was also an active participant in the abstract expressionist movement in New York during the 1960s. Throughout his career, Woodruff worked in various styles— figurative, social realism, and abstraction—often combining these approaches, as evidenced in this painting.
label: Description
content: This large rectangular oil painting on canvas depicts an abstract field of green, orange, yellow, and white colors in patches. Handwritten in the bottom right corner is the artist's signature that reads "Hale Woodruff." The reverse side of the canvas has illegible angular symbols, done in black oil. Handwritten above symbols is the signature "H. WOODRUFF."
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Abstraction
label: Topic
content: Art
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.130.3
objectType: label: Type
content: oil paintings
label: Type
content: landscapes (representations)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Hale Woodruff Estate/ Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: oil on canvas
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (painting): 30 × 35 in. (76.2 × 88.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (frame): 33 1/4 × 38 × 1 3/8 in. (84.5 × 96.5 × 3.5 cm)