- 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): 12 × 18 15/16 in. (30.5 × 48.1 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 19 1/8 × 15 in. (48.6 × 38.1 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white linocut, Giddap, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop in New York City, 1996. The depicts the lynching of a Black man by a crowd of White men and women. The man stands in the back of a horse-drawn wagon. There is a noose around his neck, tied to a tree overhead. The driver of the wagon holds a whip poised above the horse’s back, while the surrounding people jeer and raise their fists. 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
- 2015.145.1.6
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Artists Rights Society
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




