Thomas Woodruff (artist)

Thomas Woodruff (born 1957) is a New York based artist who was born in New Rochelle, New York. He received a BFA from Cooper Union in 1979.He has been teaching at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for almost 30 years, and has been chairman of the BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department since 2000.[1]

Crying Clown – Violet by Thomas Woodruff, 1990, Honolulu Museum of Art

Much of the artist's output is in series. Crying Clown, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is from the Chromatic Aberration series. It is an overly sentimentalized self-portrait painted in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, showing Woodruff’s feelings of anger and loss.[2] The Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Brooklyn Museum, the Greenville County Museum of Art (Greenville, South Carolina), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art are among the public collections holding work by Thomas Woodruff.[3][4]