Beulah Woodard beside her sculpted bust of John Anson Ford, 1935-1940

Title: Beulah Woodard beside her sculpted bust of John Anson Ford, 1935-1940
Alternative title: Portraits of Beulah Woodard with her sculpture
Artist: Woodard, Beulah Ecton, 1895-1955
Date Created: [1935-1940]
Date: 1935/1940
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: John Anson Ford was an American journalist, advertising executive and Democratic Party politician. He was a long-serving member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. [Wikipedia]
Portrait of the artist Beulah Woodard Standing beside the bust of John Anson Ford that she created with her hand, holding a sculpting tool, resting on the sculpture.
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).