His father died when Hale was young, and his mother moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked long hours and left Hale alone to draw.
In 1927 he received the Harmon Foundation Award of one hundred dollars and went to Paris. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Though born in Illinois, Woodruff moved with his mother to After his return to the United States in 1931, Woodruff turned away from the As an educator, Woodruff did much to improve educational opportunities for black artists.
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Hale Woodruff was inspired by the work of the African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, and vowed that he would visit the artist in Europe.
He received his early art training at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University.
He moved with his mother to Nashville, Tennessee, after his father died.
He grew up in a black family in Nashville, Tennessee, where he attended the local segregated schools.
Hale Woodruff was born in Cairo, Illinois. In 1926, he enrolled in the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana.
He studied at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Chicago Institute of Art, and the Harvard Fogg Art Museum.
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He received his early art training at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. View All Works Biography (b Cairo, IL, 26 Aug 1900; d New York, NY, 6 Sept 1980).
Hale Woodruff, in full Hale Aspacio Woodruff, (born August 26, 1900, Cairo, Illinois, U.S.—died September 6, 1980, New York, New York), American painter, draftsman, printer, and educator who is probably best known for his murals, especially the Amistad mutiny murals (1939) at the Savery Library at Talladega College in Alabama.
Woodruff won an award from the Harmon Foundation in 1926,He returned to the U.S. in 1931 and married Theresa Ada Baker that year.
Hale Aspacio Woodruff was born in Cairo, Illinois and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, by his widowed mother, Augusta, a domestic laborer who recognized her son’s gift for art and encouraged it.
Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. The library has another series of three Woodruff murals exploring events related to the black college's role in African-American history, including In 1942, even with World War II raging, Woodruff initiated the Atlanta University Art Annuals, an exhibit and competition that was conducted until 1970.
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After graduating from Nashville's Pearl High School, where he had been the cartoonist for the school newspaper, Woodruff studied at the Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Woodruff was born in Cairo, Illinois in on August 26, 1900.
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