Lot 4: BEULAH WOODARD (1895 - 1955) Bad Boy.

BEULAH WOODARD (1895 - 1955)
Bad Boy.

Bronze with dark brown patina, 1937. Approximately 172x140x133 mm; 6 3/4x5 1/2x5 1/4 inches. Incised signature "Woodard" and date "1937" verso. Incised "Helli-Art-Bronze-Works-LA" by the foundry verso.

Another cast is in the Miriam Matthews Collection, and illustrated in Lisa Farrington, Creating Their Own Image - The History of African-American Women Artists, p. 95, figure 4.17.



Some of Matthews' collection is now on loan at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. Miriam Matthews was the first African-American librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library system, and organized Beulah Woodard's first public exhibition at the Vernon branch. Outside of the Matthews collection, this group is the largest known collection of Woodard's work, and this is the first time any of her work has come to auction.