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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).
Date:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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).
Date:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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).
Date:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Paired clay sculptures of an African woman and man facing one another.
Date:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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).
Date:: [circa 1949]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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).
Date:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Perry M. Smith was the Chief Grand Mentor of the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor, an African-American fraternal organization best known as the sponsor of the Taborian Hospital. Around 1938 Perry persuaded the Mississippi Jurisdiction of the order to build a hospital in the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. To pay for it, each member paid an annual assessment into a hospital fund. In addition, Smith visited sharecroppers and tenants on plantations throughout Mississippi to raise funds.
Date:: [circa 1940-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portrait of the artist Beulah Woodard seated and holding her sculpture "Bad Boy," with two other busts of African men on a table beside her and three small figural sculptures of African figures, including the "Maasai Warrior" holding a spear, on draped stands in front of her.
Date:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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).
Date:: [circa 1935-1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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