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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
HALE WOODRUFF (1900 - 1980) Returning Home.
Linoleum cut on imitation Japan paper, 1935. 240x200 mm; 9 3/4x7 3/4 inches, wide margins. Artist's proof. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Artist's Proof" in pencil, lower margin. A later impression, printed circa 1975.
This linoleum cut is part of a group made over a fifteen year period while Woodruff was teaching at Spelman College from 1931-46. There are additional impressions in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
