Museum object · Visual Arts
African Headdress
1931-1946; printed 1996
New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white linocut, African Headdress, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop in New York City, 1996. The print depicts a nude female figure from the chest up. She wears a tiered headdress and is surrounded by lush tropical foliage. In the bottom margins is the edition, [78/100] at left and [© Hale Woodruff] at right. There are no markings on the reverse of the sheet.
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Catalog reference: 2015.145.1.1