Description:Portrait of an African American man with a rope around his neck lying on the steps of a church.
History:Raised in Tennessee, Hale Woodruff studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and won a scholarship that enabled him to travel to Paris and enroll at the Academia de la Grande Chaumiere. He then returned to the United States, teaching at the Atlanta and New York Universities. Woodruff's large murals depicted events in African American history such as the Amistad Mutiny. Later in his lifetime, Woodrull abandoned his representational style for Abstract Expressionism.
