Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 - September, 1980) was an African American artist known for his mural, paintings, and prints. One example of his work, the Amistad murals can be found at Talladega College in Talladega County, Alabama. The murals depict the ship itself and a sequence of scenes depicting various stages of the revolt upon the ship. Local tradition at the school has decreed that no one shall ever step upon the mural of the ship despite its central location in the library’s lobby.
Books
- David C Driskell; Leonard Simon; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Two centuries of Black American Art, (Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1976) ISBN 0875870708: 9780875870700
- Hale Woodruff 50 Years of His Art, (New York : The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1979) OCLC: 17813325
- Samella Lewis, African American Art and Artists, (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990) ISBN 0520087887: 9780520087880 0520085329 : 9780520085329
- Kenkeleba Gallery (New York, N.Y.), The search for freedom : African American abstract painting 1945-1975, (New York:Kenkeleba House, ©1991) OCLC: 30743648
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
