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Sharing the Wealth: American Jazz Museum Exhibits Hale Woodruff Family Collection
Hale Woodruff (1900-1980) is “one of the most important figures in 20th-century African-American art,” according to the authoritative reference work, African Americans in the Visual Arts, and this fall, Kansas City-area art lovers will have two opportunities to experience his accomplishments.
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Eastward Ho for “Missouri’s Artist”
Next to Thomas Hart Benton, George Caleb Bingham is probably the best-known artist of Missouri and the first major American painter to be based west of the Mississippi. He was born in 1811 in Virginia and moved to Boon’s Lick, Mo., as a young boy. Even as a child, Bingham was fascinated by rivers and all the activity on them.