Relics

Portfolio TitleSelections from the Atlanta Period

Artist Hale Woodruff (American, 1900 - 1980)

Printer Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop (American)

Date1931-1940; printed 1996

MediumLinocut on lana royal bright white thai mulberry chin colle paper

DimensionsImage: 8 3/16 × 11 1/8 inches (20.8 × 28.26 cm)
Sheet: 19 × 14 7/8 inches (48.26 × 37.78 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of The Print Society in honor of Dr. Leo Goertz and gift of Auldlyn Higgins Williams and E.T. Williams Jr. of Sag Harbor, N.Y.

Object number2018.4.5

SignedA blind stamp of the Blackburn emblem at the bottom left edge. The artist's blind stamp at the bottom right edge, "(C) Hale Woodruff"

Inscribed"13/75" in pencil at the bottom left corner

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Collections

American Art

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DescriptionThe horizontally oriented black-and-white print Relics depicts at its center a shack that is scarcely standing. Filling the composition nearly top to bottom and left to right, its roof has caved in and its side walls threaten to collapse. Long boards appear to prop up the structure in an attempt to prevent it from totally falling down. In the lower left corner of the composition, standing before the decrepit shack and facing to the left, is an emaciated swayed back mule wearing a harness and bridle.Provenance

Provenance

Auldlyn Higgins Williams and E.T. Williams, Jr., Sag Harbor, NY, 1996–2018;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 2018.

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