Selected Inventory of Charles White’s Library

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Selected Inventory of Charles White’s Library

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Charles White: A Retrospective

Selected Inventory of Charles White’s Library

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Ashley James (Compiler)

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Selected Inventory of Charles White’s Library

COMPILED BY ASHLEY JAMES

Charlie’s studio was to occupy the entire top floor. He would finally have enough room for easel painting and print making with a separate library, or “think” room, which would house the collection of art books and periodicals that were as much a part of his life as the pencil or brush.

—Frances Barrett White, Reaches of the Heart

This bibliography represents an effort to document the books and periodicals that White owned and used during his lifetime. By no means a definitive list, this selected inventory records only those texts that were in his possession at the time of his death and remain in the Charles White Archives. Many volumes show signs of his use—fingerprints, smudges—while others contain photographic source material for his art.

Abramson, Doris E. Negro Playwrights in the American Theatre, 1925–1959. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967, 1969.

Alexis, Stéphen. Black Liberator: The Life of Toussaint Louverture. Translated by William Spring. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1949.

Allen, James S. Reconstruction: The Battles for Democracy (1865–1876). New York: International Publishers, 1937.

Alswang, Betty, and Ambur Hiken. The Personal House: Homes of Artists and Writers. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1961.

American Artists’ Congress. America Today: A Book of 100 Prints. New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1936.

American Oil Company. American Travelers Guide to Negro Monuments. Chicago: American Oil Company, 1963.

Appel, Karel. Karel Appel. Amsterdam: Offsetbedrijf Augustin and Schoonman C.V., 1961.

Aptheker, Herbert, ed. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. Preface by W. E. B. Dubois. New York: Citadel Press, 1951.

Art Directors Club. Eleventh Annual of Advertising Art. New York: Book Service Co., 1932.

———. Twenty-Ninth Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art. New York: Pitman Publishing, 1950.

Artforum 7, no. 1 (Sept. 1968).

Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections. Edited by Daniel Catton Rich. Exh. cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Arts Magazine: Ideas in Contemporary Art 49, no. 4 (Dec. 1974).

Bacon, Francis, and David Sylvester. Francis Bacon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1975.

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: Dial Press, 1963.

Baltimore Museum of Art. Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection. Rev. ed. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967.

Bartsch, Ernst. Neger, Jazz und tiefer Süden. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1956.

Baskett, Mary W. The Art of June Wayne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970.

Beardsley, Aubrey. The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley. With a prefatory note by Henry Currie Marillier. New York: Dover, 1967.

Beecher, John. All Brave Sailors: The Story of the SS Booker T. Washington. New York: L. B. Fisher Publishing, 1945.

Belous, Russell E., and Robert A. Weinstein. Will Soule: Indian Photographer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1869–74. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1972.

Benton, Thomas Hart. An Artist in America. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1937.

Biberman, Edward. The Best Untold: A Book of Paintings by Edward Biberman. New York: Blue Heron Press, 1953.

Biddle, George. An American Artist’s Story. Boston: Little, Brown, 1939.

The Black Photographers Annual. New York: Black Photographers Annual, 1973.

Bloor, Ella Reeve. We Are Many: An Autobiography. With an introduction by Gurley Flynn. New York: International Publishers, 1940.

Blume, Johannes Bernhard, and John Christophe Ammann. Bernhard Blume, Jürgen Klauke, Falko Marx, Rune Mields, C. O. Paeffgen, H. G. Prager. Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1975.

Bolle, Jacques, and Yves Delacre. Herrscher des Urwalds. Berlin: Verlag Ullstein, 1959.

Bond, Fredrick W. The Negro and the Drama. Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1940.

Botkin, Benjamin A. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945.

Bowles, Paul, and Peter W. Haeberlin. Yallah. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957.

Bridgman, George Brant. Constructive Anatomy. Pelham, NY: Bridgman, 1928.

———. Features and Faces. Pelham, NY: Bridgman, 1932.

———. Fifty Figure Drawings: A Selected Group of the Best Figure Drawings Submitted by the Fifty Best Drawing Jury. Pelham, NY: Bridgman, 1929.

———. One Hundred Figure Drawings. Pelham, NY: Bridgman, 1935.

Brooklyn Museum. Paintings and Drawings by David Levine and Aaron Shikler. Exh. cat. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1971.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. In the Mecca. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

———. Selected Poems. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

———. The Wall: For Edward Christmas. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967.

Brown, Sterling. The Negro in American Fiction. Washington, DC: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1937.

———. Southern Road. Illustrations by E. Simms Campbell. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932.

Bulliet, C. J. Art Masterpieces in a Century of Progress Fine Arts Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. 2 vols. Chicago: North-Mariano Press, 1933.

Caldwell, Erskine, and Margaret Bourke-White. You Have Seen Their Faces. New York: Modern Age Books, 1937.

Cameron, Angus, and Peter Parnall. The Nightwatchers. New York: Four Winds Press, 1971.

Carawan, Guy, Candie Yellan, and Robert Yellen. Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?: The People of Johns Island, South Carolina—Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

Carlson, Charles X. The Simplified Essentials of Oil Painting. New York: Melior Books, 1943.

Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting. Exh. cat. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1952.

Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Face of Asia. With an introduction by Robert Shaplen. New York: Viking Press, 1972.

Cartier-Bresson, Henri, and Han Suyin. From One China to the Other. Edited by Robert Delpire. New York: Universe Books, 1956.

Cayton, Horace R. Long Old Road. New York: Trident Press, 1965.

Celant, Germano. Art Povera. New York: Praeger, 1969.

Cheney, Sheldon. Expressionism in Art. New York: Tudor, 1939.

———. A Primer of Modern Art. New York: Liveright, 1935.

Chinese Woodcutters’ Association. Woodcuts of War-Time China, 1937–1945. Shanghai: Kaiming Book Co., 1946.

Civil Rights Congress. We Charge Genocide. New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1951.

Clarke, John Henrik, Esther Jackson, Ernest Kaiser, and J. H. O’Dell, eds. Black Titan: W. E. B. Du Bois; An Anthology by the Editors of Freedomways. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970.

Cole, Ernest, and Thomas Flaherty. House of Bondage: A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland. London: Ridge Press, 1967.

Conrad, Barnaby. The Death of Manolete. Boston: Riverside Press, 1958.

Conrad, Earl. Harriet Tubman. Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1943.

Contemporary Photographer 6, no. 2 (1968). (See fig. 1.)

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Description: South Africa, 1954 by Weiner, Dan

Fig. 1. Dan Weiner’s photograph South Africa, 1954 was White’s source for Dream Deferred II (1969) (pl. 86). From “Dan Weiner, 1919–1959,” in “The Concerned Photographer,” special issue, Contemporary Photographer 6, no. 2 (1968): 71.

Covell, Jon C. Japanese Landscape Painting. New York: Crown Publishers, 1962.

Craven, Thomas, ed. A Treasury of American Prints: A Selection of One Hundred Etchings and Lithographs by the Foremost Living American Artists. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.

Cripps, Thomas. Black Film as Genre. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.

Cullen, Countee. On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927.

Curtis, Anna L. Stories of the Underground Railroad. Foreword by Rufus M. Jones. Illustrated by William Brooks. New York: Island Workshop Press Co-op, 1941.

Dabbs, Edith. Face of an Island: Leigh Richmond Miner’s Photographs of Saint Helena Island. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971.

Dain, Martin J. Faulkner’s County: Yoknapatawpha. New York: Random House, 1964.

Darbois, Dominique. African Dance: A Book of Photographs. Text by Vladimír Vašut. Prague: Artia, 1962.

Davidson, Basil. Report on Southern Africa. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952.

Davis, Margo Baumgarten, and Gregson Davis. Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People. San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1973.

DeCarava, Roy, and Langston Hughes. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. (See fig. 2.)

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Description: Charles White's personal copy of The Sweet Flypaper of Life by DeCarava, Roy;...

Fig. 2. White’s personal copy of Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life.

De Erdely, Francis. Vallarta Sketches. Los Angeles: Columbia Lithograph Co., 1960.

Descharnes, Robert, Clovis Prevost, and Francesc Pujols. Gaudí: The Visionary. New York: Viking Press, 1971.

Diebenkorn, Richard, and Robert T. Buck Jr. Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943–1976. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1976.

Doerner, Max, and Eugen Neuhaus. The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting with Notes on the Techniques of Old Masters. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934.

Douglass, Frederick. Fredrick Douglass: Selections from His Writings. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Sheldon Foner. New York: International Publishers, 1945.

Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction: An essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860–1880. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935.

———. Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1945.

———. In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83rd Birthday. New York: Masses and Mainstream, 1952.

———. John Brown. New York: International Publishers, 1962.

———. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Chicago: McClurg, 1918.

———. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. New York: Blue Heron Press, 1953.

———. The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History. New York: Viking Press, 1947.

[Du Bois], Shirley Graham. There Was Once a Slave . . . : The Heroic Story of Fredrick Douglass. New York: Julian Messner, 1947.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Folks from Dixie. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1898.

———. Poems of Cabin and Field. Photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Alice Morse. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895–96.

———. “The Strength of Gideon” and Other Stories. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1900.

———. The Uncalled. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1898.

Eakins, Thomas. Thomas Eakins: His Photographic Works. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1969.

Ede, H. S. Savage Messiah: Gardier-Brzeska. New York: Literary Guild, 1931.

Editors of Life Magazine. The Epic of Man. New York: Time, Inc., 1961.

Eitner, Lorenz. Géricault. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971.

Elgar, Frank. Van Gogh: Peintures. Paris: Éditions du Chêne, 1947.

Elliot, George P. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966.

Erni, Hans, and Frank Thiessing, eds. Erni: Elements of Future Painting. Zurich: Zollikofer for Meyer and Thiessing, 1948.

Evans, Walker. Walker Evans: American Photographs. With an essay by Lincoln Kirstein. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1938.

Everett, Michael. A Natural History of Owls. London: Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1977.

Evergood, Philip. 20 Years Evergood. Exh. cat. New York: ACA Gallery; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946.

Exman, Eugene. The World of Albert Schweitzer. Photographs by Erica Anderson. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. (See fig. 3.)

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Description: Charles White used this photograph by Erica Anderson as a source for Oh, Mary,...

Fig. 3. White used this photograph by Erica Anderson as a source for Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep (1956) (pl. 51). From Eugene Exman, The World of Albert Schweitzer, 38.

Famous Photographers 3, no. 10 (1970).

Famous Photographers 3, no. 11 (1970).

Fauset, Arthur Huff. Sojourner Truth: God’s Faithful Pilgrim. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938.

Fawcett, Robert. On the Art of Drawing: An Informal Textbook. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1958.

Ferguson, Blanche E. Countee Cullen and the Negro Renaissance. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1966.

Filmus, Tully. Tully Filmus. With an introduction by Alfred Werner. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1963.

Finlayson, Donald Lord. Michelangelo: The Man. New York: Tudor, 1936.

Firpo, Patrick, Lester Alexander, and Claudia Katayanagi. Copyart: The First Complete Guide to the Copy Machine. New York: R. Marek Publishers, 1978.

Fondation Maeght. La Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght à l’occasion du dixième anniversaire de la fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght. Paris: Maeght Éditeurs, 1974.

Franklin, Joe. Classics of the Silent Screen: A Pictorial Treasury. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1959.

Frasconi, Antonio, and Fritz Eichenberg. The House That Jack Built / La maison que Jacques a bâtie. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958.

Frazier, E. Franklin. The Negro Family in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1932.

Freed, Leonard. Black in White America. New York: Grossman Publishers, [1969].

Freedberg, Sydney J. Raphael: The Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, 1508–1511. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures. New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1953.

Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement 11, no. 2 (second quarter, 1971).

Frieden der Welt / Mira-mir / Peace for the World / Paix au monde: Internationale Grafik. Exh. cat. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1959.

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: W. W. Norton, 1963.

Fujikake, Shizuya. Japanese Wood-Block Prints. Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1959.

Gabrielson, Walter. Pop Dawson: The Formative Years. Drawings by Walter Gabrielson. Pasadena, CA: Dawson Aircraft, 1971.

Gamboa, Fernand, Carl O. Schniewind, and Hugh L. Edwards. Posada: Printmaker to the Mexican People. Exh. cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.

Gardi, René. Kirdi: Unter den heidnischen Stämmen in den Bergen und Sümpfen NordKameruns. Bern: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1955. (See fig. 4.)

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Description: Charles White used this photograph as a source for General Moses (Harriet Tubman)...

Fig. 4. White used this photograph as a source for General Moses (Harriet Tubman) (1965) (pl. 79). From René Gardi, Kirdi: Unter den heidnischen Stämmen in den Bergen und Sümpfen NordKameruns, 15.

Genet, Jean. The Blacks: A Clown Show. New York: Grove Press, 1960.

Goffin, Robert. Horn of Plenty: The Story of Louis Armstrong. Translated by James F. Bezou. New York: Allen, Towne and Heath, 1947.

Goldscheider, Ludwig. The Paintings of Michelangelo. London: Phaidon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1939.

Goldstein, Harriet Irene, and Vetta Goldstein. Art in Every-Day Life. New York: Macmillan, 1940.

Goodrich, Lloyd. Art of the United States, 1670–1966. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966.

———. Winslow Homer. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973.

Gregory, James M. Frederick Douglass: The Orator; Containing an Account of His Life, His Eminent Public Services, His Brilliant Career as Orator, Selections from His Speeches and Writings. Introduction by W. S. Scarborough. Springfield, MA: Willey, 1893.

Guggenheim, Hans. Dogon World: A Catalogue of Art and Myth for You to Complete. New York: Wunderman Foundation, 1974.

Haas, Ernst. The Creation. New York: Viking Press, 1971.

Haas, Robert Bartlett, Paul Harold Slattery, Verna Arvey, William Grant Still, Louis Kaufman, and Annette Kaufman, eds. William Grant Still and the Fusion of Cultures in American Music. With an introduction by Howard Hanson and Frederick Hall. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.

Haight, Anne Lyon, Monroe Wheeler, and Jean Charlot. Portrait of Latin America As Seen by Her Print Makers / Retrato de la América latina por sus artistas gráficos. New York: Hastings House, 1946.

Hall, Norman, and Basil Burton, eds. Photography Year Book 1959. London: Photography Magazine, 1958.

Handy, W. C. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography. Edited by Arna Bontemps. New York: Macmillan, 1944.

Hannah, John A. Freedom to the Free: 1863–1963 Century of Emancipation; A Report to the President by the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1963.

Harris, Ann Sutherland, and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists, 1550–1950. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Haywood, Harry. Negro Liberation. New York: International Publishers, 1948.

Helm, Mackinley. Angel Mo’ and Her Son, Roland Hayes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.

Henderson, Edwin Bandcroft. The Negro in Sports. Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1939.

Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974.

Henry, Francoise. The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College. New York: Knopf, 1974.

Heyward, Du Bose. Mamba’s Daughters: A Novel of Charleston. New York: Literary Guild, 1929.

Hochschule für Architektur. Für den Frieden: Arbeiten von Studenten der Hochschule für Architektur; III. Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten für den Frieden, in Berlin, 5–19 August 1951. Weimar: Hochschule für Architektur, 1951.

Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst. Kunst ist Waffe im Kampf für den Frieden: Geschenk an die III. Weltfeltspiele der Jugend und Studenten für der Frieden im August 1951 in Berlin, der Hauptstadt Deutschlands. Leipzig: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, 1951.

Hoffman, Malvina. Heads and Tales. New York: Bonanza Books, 1936.

———. Sculpture Inside and Out. New York: W. W. Norton, 1939.

Holt, Rackham. George Washington Carver: An American Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1943.

Horne, Lena. In Person, Lena Horne: As Told to Helen Arstein and Carlton Moss. New York: Greenberg, 1950.

Huggler, Max. The Drawings of Paul Klee. Alhambra, CA: Borden, 1965.

Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea: An Autobiography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.

———. Fields of Wonder. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.

———. Simple Takes a Wife. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.

———. Tambourines to Glory. New York: John Day, 1958.

———. The Ways of White Folks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944.

Hughes, Langston, and Arna Bontemps, eds. The Poetry of the Negro, 1746–1949. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949.

Hughes, Langston, and Milton Meltzer. A Pictorial History of the Negro in America. New York: Crown Publishers, 1956.

Hundertwasser, Friedensreich, and Manfred Bockelman. Rainy Day. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1974.

Hunnex, Milton D. Philosophies and Philosophies. San Francisco: Chandler Publishing, 1961.

IBM Corporation. Contemporary Art of the United States: Collection of the International Business Machine Corporation. Exh. cat. N.p.: n.p., 1940.

Isaacs, Edith J. R. The Negro in the American Theatre. New York: Theatre Arts, 1947.

Jacobson, J. Z. Art of Today: Chicago, 1933. Chicago: L. M. Stein, 1933.

Jeffers, Robinson. Medea: Freely Adapted from the “Medea” of Euripides. New York: Random House, 1946.

Jewell, Edward Alden. Georges Rouault. Paris: Hyperion, 1947.

Johnson, Charles S. Patterns of Negro Segregation. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943.

Johnson, Jack. Jack Johnson—in the Ring—and Out. Chicago: National Sports Publishing Co., 1927.

Johnson, James Weldon, and Aaron Douglas. God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. New York: Viking Press, 1929.

Josephson, Matthew. Life among the Surrealists: A Memoir. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.

Kaemmerer, Ludwig. Kaethe Kollwitz: Griffelkunst und Weltanschauung, ein Kunstgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur Seelen-und Gesellschaftskunde. Dresden: E. Richter, 1923.

Kemble, Frances Anne. Journal of Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1863.

Kent, Sister Mary Corita, Harvey Cox, and Samuel A. Eisenstein. Sister Corita. Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1968.

Kertész, André. André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, 1912–1972. Edited by Nicolas Ducrot. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., et al. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. John C. Bennett, Dr. Henry Steele Commager, and Rabbi Abraham Heschel Speak on the Vietnam War. New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, 1967.

Kirstein, Lincoln, and Beaumont Newhall. The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1947.

Kokoschka, Oskar. Oskar Kokoschka: A Retrospective Exhibition. With an introduction by James S. Plaut and a letter from the artist. Exh. cat. New York: Chanticleer Press, 1948.

Kollwitz, Käthe. “Ich will werken in dieser Zeit”: Auswahl aus den Tagebüchern und Briefen, aus Graphik, Zeichnungen und Plastik. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1952.

———. Käthe Kollwitz: Ausstellung 8 März bis 29 April 1951. Exh. cat. Berlin: Deutsche Akademie der Künste, 1951.

———. Radierungen: Unsignierte Abzuge von den verstahlten Originalplatten; Lithographien; Holzschnitte (Reproduktionen); Mappen/ Bildkarten. N.p.: n.p., 1960.

Kollwitz, Käthe, and Harri Nündel. Käthe Kollwitz: Blätter über den Bauernkrieg. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1975.

Lackner, Stephan E., and Jason D. Wong. Max Beckmann Graphics: Selected from the Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection. Exh. cat. Tucson, AZ: Tuscon Art Center, 1973.

Larkin, Oliver W. Art and Life in America. New York: Rinehart, 1949.

Latouche, John, and André Cauvin. Congo. New York: Willow, White, 1945. (See fig. 5.)

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Description: Charles White’s likely source image for the drawing Spirituals (1965) by...

Fig. 5. This photograph by André Cauvin reproduced in the 1945 book Congo was likely White’s source image for the drawing Spirituals (1965; location unknown [see fig. 5, p. 149)]. From John Latouche and André Cauvin, Congo, 194.

Lebrun, Rico. Rico Lebrun Drawings. Foreword by James Thrall Soby. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.

Levine, David. Artists, Authors, and Others: Drawings by David Levine. With an introduction by David P. Moynihan. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976.

Levitt, Helen. A Way of Seeing: Photographs of New York. With an essay by James Agee. New York: Viking Press, 1965.

Lewitt, Sol. Photogrids: Sol Lewitt. New York: Paul David Press/Rizzoli, 1977.

Lieberman, William S. “Picasso His Graphic Art” and “Redon Drawings and Lithographs.” Special issue, Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art 19, no. 2 (Winter 1952).

Linton, Ralph, Paul S. Wingert, and Rene D’Harnoncourt. Arts of the South Seas. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946.

Lock, Mary Land. Shadows of the Swamp. Illustrations by Jacques de Tarnowsky. Dallas: Kaleidograph Press, 1940.

Locke, Alain. The New Negro: An Interpretation. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1927.

Lukas, Jan. Light and Shade. London: Lincolns-Prager, 1947.

Mack, Gerstle. Gustave Courbet. New York: Knopf, 1951.

———. Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Knopf, 1942.

Madian, Jon. Beautiful Junk: A Story of the Watts Towers. Photographs by Barbara Jacobs and Lou Jacobs, Jr. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.

Marchiori, Giuseppe. Renato Guttuso. Milan: Edizioni d’Arte Moneta, 1952.

Marsh, J. B. T. The Story of the Jubilee Singers: With Their Songs. Boston: Houghton, 1880.

Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl. Brownstones. New York: Random House, 1959.

Melville, Herman. On the Slain Collegians: Selections from the Poems of Herman Melville. Edited by Antonio Frasconi. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.

Merriam, Eve. Montgomery, Alabama; Money, Mississippi; and Other Places: A Pamphlet in Poetry. New York: Cameron Associates, 1956.

Miller, Dorothy Canning. Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942.

Miller, Elizabeth W., ed. The Negro in America: A Bibliography. Foreword by Thomas F. Pettigrew. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966.

Miller, Henry. To Paint Is to Love Again. Alhambra, CA: Cambria, 1960.

Montagu, Ashley. Statement on Race. New York: Henry Schuman, 1951.

Moon, Bucklin, ed. Primer for White Folks. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1945.

Mueller, Hans Alexander. How I Make Woodcuts. New York: American Artists Group, 1945.

Murray, Florence, ed. The Negro Handbook, 1949. New York: Macmillan, 1949.

Nagel, Otto. Die Selbstbildnisse der Käthe Kollwitz. Berlin: Henschel Verlag, 1965.

National Academy of Design. 154th Annual Session. National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, 1978–79.

National Art Society. American Art Today: New York World’s Fair. New York: National Art Society, 1939.

National Museum of Modern Art. Dai nanakai Tokyo kokusai hanga biennare ten [Seventh Tokyo international print biennale exhibition]. Exh. cat. National Museum of Moden Art, Tokyo, 1970–71.

Nebbia, Ugo. Michelangelo: Bildhauer, Maler, Architekt, Dichter. Leipzig: Johannes Asmus Verlag, 1940.

Neilson, Winthrop, and Frances Neilson. Seven Women: Great Painters. New York; London: Chilton Book Co., 1969.

Nevelson, Louise, and Diana MacKown. Dawns + Dusks: Louise Nevelson. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1976.

Newhall, Nancy Wynne. This Is the Photo League. New York: Photo League, 1948.

Niver, Kemp R. Mary Pickford, Comedienne. Los Angeles: Locare Research Group, 1969.

Nkrumah, Kwame. Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1957.

Northrup, Herbert R. Organized Labor and the Negro. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944.

Nundel, Harri, and Maria Ruger. Graphik Slowenischer Partisanen: Ausstellung Akademie der Künste der DDR. Exh. cat. Berlin: Akademie der Künst der DDR, 1976.

Ottley, Roi, and William J. Weatherby, eds. The Negro in New York: An Informal Social History. Preface by James Baldwin. New York: Oceana Publication, 1967.

Owens, William. A Slave Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad. New York: John Day, 1953.

Paige, Leroy (Satchel). Pitchin’ Man: Satchel Paige’s Own Story. As told to Hal Lebowitz. Cleveland: Meckler, 1948.

Palfi, Marion. Suffer Little Children. New York: Oceana Publications, 1952.

Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948.

Patterson, Haywood, and Earl Conrad. Scottsboro Boy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950.

Picasso: Forty Nine New Lithographs, Together with Honoré Balzac’s “The Hidden Marterpiece” in the Form of an Allegory. New York: Lear, 1947.

Picasso Linoleum Cuts: Bacchanals, Women, Bulls and Bullfighters. Introduction by Wilhelm Boeck. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1962.

Poland: Monatsschrift Polen 10 (Oct. 1963).

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Fig. 6. White used the bottom photograph, Passengers. Boblo boat, by Alwyn Scott, as a source for Missouri C (1972) (pl. 97). From Turner, Photographs of the Detroit People, no. 46, n.p., bottom.

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Fig. 7. White used this photograph by Eudora Welty as a source for Mother Courage II (1974; National Academy Museum, New York). From Welty, One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression, frontispiece.

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