Museum object · Visual Arts
Coming Home
1931-1946; printed 1996
New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
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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, Coming Home, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop, New York City, 1996. The depicts a row of rickety wooden shack homes set under a cloud-filled sky. A female figure, wearing a dress, hat, and high-heeled shoes, climbs the bowed steps of the leftmost home. 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: 2015.145.1.3
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