Oil on canvas, signed at lower right "H. Woodruff," inscribed on the top stretcher "Red Landscape" and "Woodruff" on the lower stretcher, retaining a paper label reading "Gallery 256 / Provincetown, Mass.," presented in the likely original frame.

SS 19.75 x 35.5 in.; DOA 24.5 x 40.25 in.

Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery 256, Provincetown, MA
Private New York Collection
Private Collection, Richmond, VA

Exhibition History:
"Hale Woodruff, Paintings", Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, September 21 - October 10, 1953
"Paintings by Hale Woodruff", Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, September 15 - October 4, 1957
"Hale Woodruff, Paintings, Prints and Watercolors", Morgan State College, Baltimore, May 21 - June 14, 1968

Between the painting's initial exhibition in New York and second in Massachusetts, circa 1953-1957, Woodruff changed the orientation of the painting and the title from "The Lonely One" to "Red Landscape."

One patch en verso with corresponding quarter size area of touch-up; stable craquelure.

$15,000 - 20,000