Hale Aspacio Woodruff

Trusty on a Mule

c. 1931–1946, printed 1996

A shirtless rider in a hat leads a saddled horse through grassy terrain under trees.
A shirtless rider in a hat leads a saddled horse through grassy terrain under trees.

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Date
c. 1931–1946, printed 1996

Classification
Prints

Medium
Linoleum cut with chine-collé

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 8 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (20.6 × 25.7 cm) Image: 7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.2 × 25.6 cm) Mount: 20 1/16 × 14 3/4 in. (51 × 37.5 cm)

Accession number
98.22.8

Edition
3/75

Publication
Printed by Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop; published by Marshall Arts, Ltd./Woodruff Project

Credit line
Gift of E. Thomas Williams, Jr. and Auldlyn Higgins Williams

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Hale Aspacio Woodruff / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/11730

Part of a series:
Hale Woodruff: Selections from the Atlanta Period 1931-1946
8 works

Several people in period costumes dancing and walking through a narrow village street.
A person with braided hair bows low on wooden steps before closed carved doors and stained glass.
A man with a noose around his neck stands tied while a group of men surround him.
A stylized figure with halo-like pattern holding fruit amid dense tropical plants.
A person climbs steep wooden stairs between weathered stilt houses under a cloudy sky.
A woodcut shows an old weathered house with a tall cupola and windswept grass.
A thin, bony horse stands tied beside a collapsed wooden shack in a bleak landscape.
A shirtless rider in a hat leads a saddled horse through grassy terrain under trees.

Hale Aspacio Woodruff
10 works in the collection, 5 exhibitions

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