Image / "Kenya Chief," papier papier mâché mask by Beulah Woodard, circa 1935

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Title: "Kenya Chief," papier papier mâché mask by Beulah Woodard, circa 1935
Alternative Title: Works of Beulah Woodard, Sculptor (1 of 2)
Contributor: Woodard, Beulah Ecton, 1895-1955
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1935]
1935
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Papier mâché mask, titled Kenya Chief - British East Africa, by Beulah Woodard. The mask depicts the face of an African man wearing a headdress of feathers and beads and wearing a necklace of beads and animal teeth.
Beulah Ecton Woodard was an African-American sculptor and painter in California who specialized in African subjects. The first African American artist to show her work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, she founded the Los Angeles Negro Art Association (1937).
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b24_f02_003a.tif
ark:/21198/z15445r8
Subject: African American sculpture
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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