Image: Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville
The Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida, marked Hale Woodruff’s birthday in a social-media post highlighting a study for the artist’s mural series ‘Art of the Negro.’ The museum identified Woodruff as a Paris-trained African American artist who was nationally known as a painter, draftsman and printmaker.
Published on August 26, 2026, the post presented the work as a study for a larger mural commission rather than as an independent image. According to the museum’s description, the ‘Art of the Negro’ series was commissioned for the Trevor Arnett Library at Clark-Atlanta University.
The project places the study within Woodruff’s work for an Atlanta university and connects it to the artist’s broader practice across painting, drawing and printmaking. The museum’s post did not provide additional information about the work’s title, date, materials, dimensions or present display status.
The Harn Museum of Art is based in Gainesville and operates as an art museum associated with the University of Florida. Its birthday commemoration focused on Woodruff’s artistic profile and on the relationship between the featured study and the mural series for which it was made.
No exhibition announcement, public program or event dates were included in the post. The available information is limited to the birthday recognition and the identification of the work as a study for ‘Art of the Negro,’ commissioned for the Trevor Arnett Library at Clark-Atlanta University.
