Clay bust of Charles H. Matthews, Jr. by Beulah Woodard, 1954

Item Overview

Title

Clay bust of Charles H. Matthews, Jr. by Beulah Woodard, 1954

Alternative title

Works of Beulah Woodard, Sculptor (2 of 2)

Artist

Woodard, Beulah Ecton, 1895-1955

Date Created

1954

Date

1954/1950

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Illustrated in Selected Pieces from the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. Afro-American Art Collection by Francine Carter, In Black Art, an International Quarterly, Winter, 1976, p. 20.
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).
This work measures 309 x 252 x 152 mm; 12 1/2x10x6 inches.
Bust of Charles H. Matthews, or "Young Boy (Chuck)," in fired clay painted pale peach.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

busts (sculpture)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American sculpture