Charles White: A Retrospective

Oehler, Sarah Kelly; Adler, Esther

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Description: Charles White: A Retrospective

Sarah Kelly Oehler (Editor), Esther Adler (Editor)

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Charles White (1918–1979) is best known for bold, large-scale paintings and drawings of African Americans, meticulously executed works that depict human relationships and socioeconomic struggles with a remarkable sensitivity. This comprehensive study offers a much-needed reexamination of the artist’s career and legacy. With extensive reproductions of White’s finest paintings, drawings, and prints, the volume introduces his work to contemporary audiences, reclaims his place in the art-historical narrative, and stresses the continuing relevance of his insistent dedication to producing positive social change through art.

Tracing White’s career from his emergence in Chicago to his mature practice as an artist, activist, and educator in New York and Los Angeles, leading experts provide insights into White’s creative process, his work as a photographer, his political activism and interest in history, the relationship between his art and his teaching, and the importance of feminism in his work. A preface by Kerry James Marshall addresses White’s significance as a mentor to an entire generation of practitioners and underlines the importance of this largely overlooked artist.

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Author

Sarah Kelly Oehler (Editor), Esther Adler (Editor)

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Print publication date June 2018 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300232981

EISBN 9780300279801

Illustrations 203

Print Status out of print

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List of illustrations

Great Negroes, Past and Present
Untitled
Portrait of a Lady
Lucifer
Saint Serapion
Horace Cayton and Richard Wright examining census maps of the South Side
Opening day, George Cleveland Hall Branch Library, Vivian Harsh, center
Portrait of Langston Hughes
Charles White working on Five Great American Negroes
Portrait of Sojourner Truth
Photograph of Charles White's mural The History of the Negro Press
Detroit Industry, South Wall, bottom register
Charles White in front of Struggle for Liberation
Charles White working on the left panel of Struggle for Liberation
Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America
Promotional poster for lecture given by Charles White, White Is Beautiful: Charles White, Graphic Interpreter of the Black People
Steeltown Twilight
Sketch of a laborer
Charles White’s There Were No Crops This Year
Sketch of gestures
Cabeza (or Youth)
Charles White's line drawing of Spartacus
Assumption of the Virgin
Wanted Poster Series #12a
Self-Portrait
Woman with face in hands
Hunched-over man
Sketch for a block print
Ivory Coast sculpture
Kitchenette Debutantes
John Brown
Card Players
Preacher
Five Great American Negroes
Untitled (Four Workers)
There Were No Crops This Year
Study for Struggle for Liberation (Chaotic Stage of the Negro, Past and Present)
Spiritual
Native Son No. 2
This, My Brother
Hear This
Sojourner Truth and Booker T. Washington (Study for Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America)
Paul Robeson (Study for Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America)
Denmark Vesey (Study for Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America)
Study for Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America
Worker
Headlines
War Worker
Mother (Awaiting HIs Return)
Soldier
C'est l'amour
Woman I
American Gothic
American Gothic
Department Store, Mobile, Alabama
Committee for the Negro in the Arts (reception at the ACA Gallery)
The Ingram Case
Postcard with Charles White's Ye Shall Inherit the Earth
General Moses and Sojourner (Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth)
I am the Negro Woman
Portrait of Charles White
Three boys posing
Man lying on stoop
Woman near newsstand
Ernest Crichlow
Frank Silvera (left) and Ernest Crichlow (at right, cropped)
Musician in Washington Square Park
Blind woman at a Harlem street corner
Blind woman at a Harlem street corner
Blind woman at a Harlem street corner
Hope for the Future
Two Alone
Black Sorrow (Dolor Negro)
The Return of the Soldier (Dixie Comes to New York)
Can a Negro Study Law in Texas
Trenton Six
Frederick Douglass Lives Again (The Ghost of Frederick Douglass)
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Untitled (Bearded Man)
The Children
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Our Land
Gospel Singers
Gideon
Exodus I: Black Moses (Harriet Tubman)
Goodnight Irene
Abraham Lincoln
Harvest Talk
Preacher
Young Farmer
Young Farmer
Work (Young Worker)
Ye Shall Inherit the Earth
Mahalia
I've Been 'Buked and I've Been Scorned
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep
Frances Barrett White
Ethelene Gary Marsh
Margaret Burroughs
Jacob Lawrence
Roy DeCarava
Miriam Makeba
Harry Belafonte and Mr. and Mrs. David Stone Martin
Woman reading Jet magazine
Drawing class
Street artist
Musician in Washington Square Park
Boy playing on street
Boys on the street with photographer behind
Newsstand and pedestrians
Protest onlookers
March in New York
March to outlaw anti-Semitism
March in New York
I Have a Dream
Warning to America
Migrants
Villon's Ballad 2
Paul Robeson
Set of the film The Defiant Ones, Los Angeles, March 1958
Rights Marchers
Wanted Poster Series #4
I Have Seen Black Hands
Homage to Sterling Brown
Mary McLeod Bethune
Portrait of Tom Bradley
Untitled (Seated Woman)
House of the Turtle
Tree House
Drawings of Blanche K. Bruce, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Harriet Tubman
General Moses (Harriet Tubman) reproduced on calendar
Drawing reproduced on record cover
Ceramic sculptures
Viva la Revolución!
Many Mansions
Injustice Case
Charles White visiting a Los Angeles school classroom
City of Dreams/River of History
Portrait of Charles White
Birmingham Totem
Voice of Jericho (Folksinger)
Folksinger (Voice of Jericho: Portrait of Harry Belafonte)
Sammy Davis Jr. (from Anna Lucasta)
Rex Ingram, Fred O'Neal, and Georgia Burke (from Anna Lucasta)
Eartha Kitt (from Anna Lucasta)
Solid as a Rock (My God is Rock)
Micah
Awaken from the Unknowing
General Moses (Harriet Tubman)
J'Accuse #1
J'Accuse #6
J'Accuse #7
J'Accuse #10 (Negro Woman)
Seed of Love
Nat Turner, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Dream Deferred II
Elmina Castle
Wanted Poster Series #6
Wanted Poster Series #10
Wanted Poster Series #17
Wanted Poster Series #11 (positive image)
Wanted Poster Series #11a (negative image)
Wanted Poster Series #12
She Does Not Know Her Beauty
Mississippi
Harriet
Missouri C
Cat's Cradle
Black Pope (Sandwich Board Man)
Banner for Willy J.
Love Letter I
Love Letter II
Love Letter III
Sound of Silence
Ethelene Gary and baby Charlie
Charles White at the age of six
Charles White teaching life drawing class at the South Side Community Art Center
Meet Mr., Mrs. Charles White: An Interesting and Talented Combination
Charles White at work on Hampton Institute mural
Selection jury for the Second National Exhibition of Paintings by Negro Artists, Atlanta University, April 1943
Harlem's Carver School Draws Capacity Classrooms
Rockwell Kent and Ernest Crichlow at Wo-Chi-Ca
Robert Gwathmey, Charles White, and Jacob Lawrence at Negro Woman exhibition, ACA Gallery
Representatives of the Soviet Youth Antifascist Committee welcome Charles White in Moscow
General Moses and Sojourner
Charles White and Harry Belafonte working on Songs Belafonte Sings
Charles White working on an NAACP recruitment poster
The White family—Charles, Ian, Frances, and Jessica—at their California home on Risinghill Road in Altadena
Chicago poet Margaret Danner, wearing a Senegalese boubou, looks at Charles White’s Birmingham Totem
Charles White: Portrayer of Black Dignity
Frances and Charles White: They Share a Life Where Art Is Served Up with Every Meal
Charles White is the guest of honor at three-day Black Arts Festival held at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Governor Jerry Brown introduces Charles White and Edward Abie Robinson as new commissioners of the California Museum of Afro-American History and Culture
Sidney Poitier remembers his friendship with Charles White at memorial jubilee held at the Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles
South Africa, 1954
Charles White's personal copy of The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Charles White used this photograph by Erica Anderson as a source for Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep (1956)
Charles White used this photograph as a source for General Moses (Harriet Tubman) (1965)
Charles White’s likely source image for the drawing Spirituals (1965)
Charles White used the bottom photograph, Passengers: Boblo boat, as a source for Missouri C (1972)
Charles White used this photograph by Eudora Welty as a source for Mother Courage II (1974)

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