- 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): 11 15/16 × 8 7/8 in. (30.3 × 22.5 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 19 × 14 15/16 in. (48.3 × 37.9 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white linocut, By Parties Unknown, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop in New York City, 1996. The print depicts the lynched body of a male figure, noose tied around his neck and hands bound behind his back, lain on the steps of a church. The wooden steps lead to the closed double doors of the church, which has a crumbling wooden façade and arched stained glass windows. In the bottom margins is the edition, [78/100] at left and [© Hale Woodruff] at right. There are no markings on the verso.
- Place collected
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Place printed
- 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
- 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
- 2015.145.1.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Artists Rights Society
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




