Hale Woodruff was an African-American artist, much of whose work was about conveying the African-American experience. I featured one of his prints, “By Parties Unknown” on day 3 of week 1–a disturbing but important aspect of the black experience in the US. The topic of today’s print is a happier one–jazz music as an expression of African-American culture. I find this print of an accordion player resonates for me. We don’t see an audience–perhaps for this musician, an audience is not why he plays.
Blind Musician (1935)
