"Bad Boy," bronze bust by Beulah Woodard, 1937

Item Overview

Title

"Bad Boy," bronze bust by Beulah Woodard, 1937

Alternative title

Works of Beulah Woodard, Sculptor (2 of 2)

Artist

Woodard, Beulah Ecton, 1895-1955

Date Created

1937

Date

1937

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

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).
One version of this work was in the collection of Golden State Mutual Life, sold at auction by Swann Auction Galleries in 2007. Another version, and probably the one in this photograph, was in the Miriam Matthews collection (some of which is on loan at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles).
Bronze bust titled Bad Boy.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

sculpture

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American sculpture