Muses
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Title
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Muses
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Date
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1945--1952
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Creator
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Hale A. Woodruff, 1900-1980
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Contributor
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Atlanta University Comission
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Description
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Hale Aspacio Woodruff was an artist and art educator known for his murals, paintings, and prints from Cairo, IL. Muses, the sixth panel in the Art of the Negro mural series, presents a canon of seventeen male African diasporic artists from the 13th-20th centuries alongside their medium
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Primary Subject
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1900-1999
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Black power
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Activism
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Art
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Additional Subject
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African diaspora
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Racial uplift
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Social life and customs
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Afrocentrism
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Location
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Atlanta
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Fulton County
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Georgia
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USA
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Type
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Murals
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Medium
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Oil on canvas
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Measurements
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11 ft. x 11 ft.
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Format
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JPG
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HBCU Identifier
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1952.017
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HCAC Identifier
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HCAC.CAU.115
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Rights
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All rights held by the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Clark Atlanta University, (404) 880-6102 Attn: Museum Director.
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Contributing Institution
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Clark Atlanta University
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Source
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Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
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Collection
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The Art of the Negro Mural Series
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Language
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English
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Notes
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Muses (6) centers an African and European deity emphasizing the cultural hybridity of Africans in the West. Beneath them, he presents a canon of seventeen male African diasporic artists from the 13th-20th centuries alongside their medium. Together, these two features indicate the evolution and contributions of the African artist in the West.
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