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Giddap / Hale Woodruff. – Historic Print

Giddap / Hale Woodruff., [1935] — historic print
Giddap / Hale Woodruff., [1935]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Titled "Giddap," this 1935 woodcut by Hale Woodruff takes lynching as its direct subject, a crime that the record classifies under the 1930s heading for African Americans subjected to punishment and torture. Woodruff, a painter and printmaker who trained in Indianapolis and Paris and later taught at Atlanta University, worked in a stark, high-contrast style well suited to the woodcut medium. The Harmon Foundation, which supported African American artists through exhibitions and awards in those years, is the source of the print's records, and the pencil signature marks this as an individually signed impression. Its blunt graphic force shows how artists of the period turned to printmaking to confront racial violence.

Created / published[1935]
Medium1 print : woodcut.
GenreWoodcuts 1930-1940.
NotesTitle from item. Signed in pencil. From Harmon Foundation, Inc. records. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1971:154
SubjectsLynchings--1930-1940. African Americans--Punishment & torture--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,301 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-208872

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