African Headdress
1996
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View on museum website →Medium
linocut in black with chine collé on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 15.24 × 10.32 cm (6 × 4 1/16 in.) sheet: 48.58 × 37.94 cm (19 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of E. Thomas Williams, Jr. and Auldlyn Higgins Williams in memory of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
Accession Number
2015.19.3032.1
Art Historical Context
Hale Woodruff's *African Headdress* (1996), a linocut in black with chine collé on wove paper, invites visitors into a world of cultural reverence and artistic precision. This intimate print, with its image measuring just 6 × 4 1/16 inches, hails from the Corcoran Collection at the National Gallery of Art, gifted in memory of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr. by E. Thomas Williams, Jr. and Auldlyn Higgins Williams. Part of a classified portfolio, it exemplifies Woodruff's enduring legacy as a pioneering African American artist who celebrated heritage through modern printmaking. The linocut technique—c...