<I>African Headdress</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1931-1946; printed 1996
name: label: Created by
content: Hale Woodruff, American, 1900 - 1980
label: Printed by
content: Robert Blackburn, American, 1920 - 2003
label: Published by
content: Robert Blackburn, American, 1920 - 2003
notes: label: Description
content: A black-and-white linocut, African Headdress, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop in New York City, 1996. The print depicts a nude female figure from the chest up. She wears a tiered headdress and is surrounded by lush tropical foliage. In the bottom margins is the edition, [78/100] at left and [© Hale Woodruff] at right. There are no markings on the reverse of the sheet.
place: label: Place collected
content: New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Edgar Thomas Williams, Jr. Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Selections From the Atlanta Period
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Auldyn Higgins Williams and E.T. Williams, Jr. in memory of Robert Grayson ("Mickey") McGuire, III and his parents Eleanor Hackett McGuire and R.G. McGuire, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.145.1.1
objectType: label: Type
content: linocuts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Artists Rights Society
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on Arches (TM) paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 6 × 4 1/16 in. (15.3 × 10.3 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 18 15/16 × 15 1/16 in. (48.1 × 38.3 cm)