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published 1996

Hale Woodruff

Artist, American, 1900 - 1980

Robert Blackburn

Printer, American, 1920 - 2003

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Trusty on a Mule

Hale Woodruff, Robert Blackburn

1996

Old Church

Hale Woodruff, Robert Blackburn

1996

Printed with black on white paper, a person with hands bound behind his back and a cut noose around his neck lies on the stairs leading up to a wood-sided building in this vertical linocut. The white lines are gouged like slashes against the dense, pressing black. The person’s hair is cut short, their muscular arms exposed in the sleeveless shirt, and their pants are tattered above the knee. The head is bent sharply down, the chin at the chest. The building has arched windows filled with shapes, suggesting stained glass and indicating that this is a church. The double doors are closed, and a few leafy plants grow to each side of the warped, partially broken steps.

By Parties Unknown

Hale Woodruff, Robert Blackburn

1996

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite by unknown hand: 169/300

Markings

embossed lower left: [The Printmaking Workshop]; embossed lower right: © Hale Woodruff

Wikidata ID

Q76441016

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