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Charles White (1918-1979)


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Untitled, c.1942 tempera on Abacco illustration bo...

Untitled, c.1942
tempera on Abacco illustration board
18 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches / 47.3 x 45.1 cm

Mural Study for Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, 1945 tempera and g...

Mural Study for Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, 1945
tempera and graphite on illustration board
14 5/8 x 24 1/8 inches / 37.1 x 61.3 cm
signed

Untitled, c.1950 oil on canvas 24 x 30 1/8 inches...

Untitled, c.1950
oil on canvas
24 x 30 1/8 inches / 61 x 76.5 cm
signed

Let The Light Enter, 1961 Wolff crayon and charcoa...

Let The Light Enter, 1961
Wolff crayon and charcoal on paper
55 3/8 x 19 1/2 inches / 140.7 x 49.5 cm
signed

J'Accuse! No.3, 1965 Wolff crayon and charcoal...

J'Accuse! No.3, 1965
Wolff crayon and charcoal on paper
30 1/2 x 30 inches / 77.5 x 76.2 cm
signed

J'Accuse! No.5, 1966 Wolff crayon and charcoal...

J'Accuse! No.5, 1966
Wolff crayon and charcoal on paper
51 3/4 x 34 7/8 inches / 131.4 x 88.6 cm
signed

Study for Cathedral of Life, 1967 Wolff crayon and...

Study for Cathedral of Life, 1967
Wolff crayon and charcoal on paper
47 5/8 x 31 inches / 121 x 78.7 cm
signed


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Artist Information

1937-1938          
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1942-45               
The Art Students League, New York, NY (studies with Harry Sternberg)

1946-47                
Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City, Mexico (studies lithography)
Escuela de Pintura y Escultura de la Secretaría de Educación Pública Arte, Mexico City, Mexico

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Art Bridges, Fort Worth, TX
Art Galleries at Black Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY
Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College, Waterville, ME
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans
and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Deutsche Akademie Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Fisk University Art Galleries, Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Hampton University Museum, Hampton University, Hampton, VA
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, San Antonio, TX
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Howard University Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Intergrafik, Berlin, Germany
John L. Warfield Center of African and African American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH
The National Archives, Washington, DC
National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, GA
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Southside Community Art Center, Chicago, IL
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Taller de Grafica Popular, Mexico City, Mexico
University of Michigan Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
The Wylie and May Louise Jones Gallery, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1939 
Five Great Americans, or Progress of the American Negro, Howard University, Washington, DC 

1940 
History of the Negro Press, American Negro Exhibition, Chicago, IL 

1943 
The Contribution of the American Negro to American Democracy, Hampton Institute, Hampton, VA 

1978 
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune - Last Will and Testament, Mary McLeod Bethune Public Library, Los Angeles, CA