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Title
Beulah Woodard beside her sculpted bust of John Anson Ford, 1935-1940
Alternative Title
Portraits of Beulah Woodard with her sculpture
Contributor
Woodard, Beulah Ecton, 1895-1955
Date Created and/or Issued
[1935-1940]
1935/1940
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
John Anson Ford was an American journalist, advertising executive and Democratic Party politician. He was a long-serving member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. [Wikipedia]
Portrait of the artist Beulah Woodard Standing beside the bust of John Anson Ford that she created with her hand, holding a sculpting tool, resting on the sculpture.
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_f04_004.tif
ark:/21198/z1j69133
Subject
African American sculptors
African American sculpture
Ford, John Anson
Woodard, Beulah Ecton, 1895-1955
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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