- Created by
- Woodruff, Hale, American, 1900 - 1980
- Printed by
- Blackburn, Robert, American, 1920 - 2003
- Date
- 1931-1946; printed 1996
- Medium
- ink on Arches (TM) paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 10 1/8 × 8 1/16 in. (25.7 × 20.4 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 19 × 15 1/16 in. (48.3 × 38.3 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white linocut, Coming Home, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop, New York City, 1996. The depicts a row of rickety wooden shack homes set under a cloud-filled sky. A female figure, wearing a dress, hat, and high-heeled shoes, climbs the bowed steps of the leftmost home. 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 printed
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Place collected
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Edgar Thomas Williams, Jr. Collection
- Portfolio/Series
- Selections From the Atlanta Period
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- linocuts
- Topic
- Art
- Credit Line
- 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.
- Object number
- 2015.145.1.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Artists Rights Society
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




