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Title
Beulah Woodard with six sculptures that she made, 1935-1955
Alternative Title
Portraits of Beulah Woodard with her sculpture
Contributor
Woodard, Beulah Ecton, 1895-1955
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa 1935-1955]
1935/1955
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Portrait of the artist Beulah Woodard seated and holding her sculpture "Bad Boy," with two other busts of African men on a table beside her and three small figural sculptures of African figures, including the "Maasai Warrior" holding a spear, on draped stands in front of her.
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_002a.tif
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Subject
African American sculptors
African American sculpture
Woodard, Beulah Ecton, 1895-1955
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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