Woodruff died in New York City on September 6, 1980. Exhibition history Solo exhibitions 1976 Ancestral Memory the Studio Museum in Harlem Group exhibitions 1985 Hidden Heritage, Bellevue Art Museum and Art Association of America 1976 Two Centuries of Black Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1971 Newark Museum 1967 New York University San Diego Art Museum Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. City College of New York 1958 New Bertha Schaffer Gallery, New York 1955 University of North Carolina 1951 Atlanta University Legacy In 2012 the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia organized an exhibition of Woodruff's murals created for Talladega College. The exhibition of six of the restored murals toured the United States including the African American Museum (Dallas), the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Chicago Cultural Center, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. References Further reading David C Driskell; Leonard Simon; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Two Centuries of Black American Art, (Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1976) , Hale Woodruff 50 Years of His Art, (New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1979) Samella Lewis, African American Art and Artists, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) , , Kenkeleba Gallery (New York, N.Y.), The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945–1975, (New York: Kenkeleba House, ©1991) Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) . pp. 358–361 Crystal Britton, African American Art: The Long Struggle, (New Line Books, 1998) Samella Lewis, African American Art and Artists, (University of California Press, 1994) Sharon Patton, African-American Art, (Oxford University Press, 1998) Romare Bearden, A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present, (Pantheon, 1993) External links "Amistad Murals", Talladega College 1900 births 1980 deaths Artists from Indiana Herron School of Art and Design alumni African-American painters African-American printmakers 20th-century African-American people