Artist Research (cont'd.) - Hale Woodruff

The second of the pioneering African American artists who's style I enjoy is Hale Woodruff.  He, like Charles White, uses a very graphic and graphic novel-like style but his art doesn't read as flat or static.  Also his use of bright shapes of color, in the card players, to create form is done in a very stylized and with intentionality.

The first is called Mutiny Aboard the Amistad 1839 - 1939 and the second is the Card Players - 1930