Hale A. Woodruff’s Amistad Paintings

The DMA presents Hale A. Woodruff’s Amistad Paintings, a monumental mural that commemorates the centennial of the 1839 Amistad revolt. The three paintings—The Mutiny on the Amistad, The Trial of the Amistad Captives, and The Reparation of the Freed Captives—were created by the American painter Hale Woodruff in 1938 as a commission for a new library at Talladega College and were intended to serve as a symbol of "interracial harmony and intellectual advancement.