Sunday Promenade, from Hale Woodruff: Selections from the Atlanta Period 1931–1946

Inscription: Inscribed (lower left): 15/75

Marking: Relief pressed into paper (lower right): c [encircled] Hale Woodruff

E. Thomas Williams, Jr. and Auldlyn Higgins Williams, New York (until 1998; their gift to MMA)

Alain Locke. The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. Washington, D.C., 1940, ill. p. 58 (earlier edition).

Cedric Dover. American Negro Art. Greenwich, Conn., 1960, p. 39, ill. (not this edition), references an earlier print run.

Mary Schmidt Campbell in Hale Woodruff: 50 Years of His Art. Exh. cat., Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, 1979, pp. 32–33, 96 (earlier edition), dates it 1935.

Jayne Cortez. In a Stream of Ink. Exh. cat., Center for Art and Culture of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Inc. New York, 1984, ill., n.p. (not this edition), references an earlier print run.

Nina Parris. Through a Master Printer: Robert Blackburn and the Printmaking Workshop. Exh. cat., Columbia Museum. Columbia, S.C., 1985, unpaginated, ill. (not this edition), references an earlier print run.

Alison Cameron. "Buenos Vecinos: African-American Printmaking and the Taller de Gráfica Popular." Print Quarterly 16 (December 1999), p. 356 (not this edition), references an earlier print run; notes this work was made after the artist's return to the United States from Mexico.

Kabuya Bowens. An American Legacy: African American Printmakers, Aaron Douglas, Wilmer Jennings, Dox Thrash, Hale Woodruff. Exh. cat., Tompkins Gallery, Cedar Crest College. Allentown, Penn., 2002, unpaginated, ill. (not this edition), references an earlier print run.

Lisa Goff. Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor. Cambridge, Mass., 2016, pp. 216, 287 n. 60.

This is one of eight prints in a deluxe limited edition portfolio titled Hale Woodruff: Selections from the Atlanta Period 1931–1946, printed by Robert Blackburn at the Printmaking Workshop in 1996 (see MMA 1998.101.1–.8 for full set). The printed images were made from Woodruff's original linoleum blocks, which are now in the collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, N.Y.