Twilight by Hale Woodruff
Art Institute of Chicago

Twilight

Hale Woodruff · c. 1926

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Mrs. Olivia Anderson (sister-in-law of the artist), Indianapolis. Derrick Joshua Beard (1958–2018), Chicago, by 1993; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1993.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Children's Museum, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/3221/children-s-museum-negro-in-art-week-primitive-and-modern-lent-by-harlem-museum"><em>The Negro in Art Week: Primitive Africa Sculpture, Modern Painting and Sculpture</em></a>, Nov. 16–Dec. 1, 1927, cat.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism</em>, Feb. 25–July 28, 2024, cat. 82.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Negro in Art Week: Modern Paintings and Sculpture</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1927), n.p., cat. 40 (ill.).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 17, 139–41, cat. 56 (ill.).
  • Denise Murrell et al., <em>The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism</em>, exh. cat. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024), 227–29, cat. 82 (ill.).

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