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HALE WOODRUFF Sun, Moon, Star.
Oil on gessoed linen canvas, circa 1970. 760x635 mm; 30x25 inches. Signed in oil, lower right, and retraced in crayon. Signed, titled and inscribed "22 East 8 St., NYC 10003," the artist's New York address, in ink on the stretcher bars. Ex-collection Dr. Gloria and Frank Johnson, Washington, D.C.
This oils reflects the last artistic period of Woodruff's career, his New York abstract period, with his tenure as a painting professor at New York University in the 1960s. He retired from NYU in 1967, and died in New York City in 1980.
