1. WOODRUFF AND CURRIER & IVES
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WOODRUFF
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CURRIER & IVES

2. Hale Woodruff

3. Hale Woodruff was born on August 26, 1900, in Illinois
Hale Woodruff was born on August 26, 1900, in Illinois. He was an African-American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints. He sought to express his sense of heritage in abstract painting . With Powerful Murals, Hale Woodruff Paved The Way For African-American Artists

4. HALE WOODRUFF developed his painterly skills and crafted his story-telling abilities, which included travels to France and Mexico.  HALE WOODRUFF, even as a young artist, had a social consciousness and painted with those concerns in mind being a minority in a country that restricted his social and political rights. 

5. FRENCH INFLUENCED PAINTING
FRENCH INFLUENCED PAINTING. Hale Woodruff studied painting in Paris from 1927 to 1931 and was influenced by Picasso and other modernists painting at that time. This painting reflects his exposure to cubism while living in France.

6. MEXICAN INFLUENCED.  Knowledgeable of Diego Rivera's large socio-political murals, Hale Woodruff went to Mexico to learn from him. It is with Rivera, that he developed his art of telling a story in his paintings. He was influenced by Rivera's Social realism and the way It celebrated the lives and struggles of everyday people.

7. Woodruff applied his understanding of Post-Impressionism and Cubism to painting for social advocacy after his return to the United States in 1936, during the Great Depression.

8. He contributed to the development of African American art as an artist and a distinguished art educator. Woodruff joined the faculty of Atlanta University in It was his initial venture with art instruction which made him one of the first college professors of art in the state of Georgia. 

9. He was a leading artist of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City and in 1967 The New York University Alumni Association named him “Teacher of the Year”
He died September, 1980 in New York City. They say His art work represented his heritage.  

10. CURRIER & IVES

11. Currier and Ives was a successful American printmaking firm Owned by
 NATHANIEL CURRIER 
 JAMES MERRITT IVES
based in New York City from 1834 to 1907.

12. The firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs  (an authorized copy of an original work ) created by the Artist himself that were hand colored. Lithographic prints could be reproduced quickly and purchased inexpensively, and the firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints"

13. Currier and Ives was the most successful company of lithographers in the U.S. It represented every phase of American life, including the themes of hunting, fishing, whaling, city life, rural, historical scenes,  railroads, politics, comedy, gold mining and portraits of real life. From 1866 on, the firm occupied three floors in a building at 33 Spruce Street in New York.

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16. Currier died in Ives remained active in the firm until his death in Both Currier's and Ives's sons followed their fathers in the business, which was eventually liquidated in 1907. The public demand for lithographs had gradually diminished because of improvements in printing.

18. Showing Movement in Art
In Woodruff’s painting “Poor Man’s Cotton”
You can see how hard they are working by their positions and actions.
Bright colors and broad free brush stokes help show the movement of the workers.
In Whale Fishery in Currier and Ives lithograph
the men are hunting whale for their oil. –used to light lamps
You see the movement of the boats in the water and the water from the spout of the dying whale.

19. Showing Movement in Art.