Art Review: Hale Woodruff’s Talladega Murals, in ‘Rising Up,’ at N.Y.U.:
“‘Rising Up,’ a show at 80WSE Gallery at N.Y.U., is devoted to six striking murals by Hale Woodruff, depicting moments in African-American history, as well as other works by the artist.
Woodruff’s murals may be the greatest to emerge from the American Social Realist and mural movements of the 1930s and ’40s. This notion will raise eyebrows among admirers of Thomas Hart Benton, who led those movements and exerted an important influence on Woodruff. But this exhibition suggests that Woodruff supersedes Benton in every way — in visual and narrative force, in his assured synthesis of history and also in his humanity.”
(Via NYT > Art & Design.)