Hale Aspacio Woodruff (1900 - 1980)

Hale Aspacio Woodruff

Hale Aspacio Woodruff is an American artist known for his murals, paintings and prints. He studied painting at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and at the Academy of Art Nouveau in Paris. 

Hale Aspacio Woodruff was a prominent figure on the Harlem art scene in the 1920s and 1930s, where he worked alongside other influential artists such as Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence. He was also a professor at Atlanta University, where he taught from 1931 to 1946. One of Woodruff's most notable works is his series of murals depicting the history of African Americans in America, which he painted for Talladega College in Alabama in the 1930s. The murals were later restored and are now in the college's David Hall Fine Arts Center.