Torso

Hale Woodruff

About 1970

  • Titles Torso (Descriptive)
  • Artist Hale Woodruff, American, 1900 - 1980
  • Medium oil on canvas
  • Dimensions canvas: 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm) frame: 40 1/4 × 30 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (102.2 × 76.8 × 4.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by the Estate of Elizabeth "Beth" Fletcher Hanson, AFI.55.2021
  • Work Type painting
  • Classification Paintings

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This image is created with black ink on cream paper. Train tracks stretch from the foreground to the background of the composition, with a few small buildings in the foreground at the left and right of the image. Only a few trains can be seen in front of the train station building, which is pictured at the center left of the image with two towers and a great dome. The sky is filled with light, scattered clouds.
This painting represents stand of narrow-shafted trees, scattered throughout the foreground and shown receding off to the right of the middle ground. A stream is also shown in the middle ground, running over a rocky outcropping. The background represents additional trees in green and yellow, and possibly a mountain ridge extending above the treetops. The main colors of the painting are yellow, orange, and green.