Artist

Charles White

born Chicago, IL 1918-died Los Angeles, CA 1979
Also known as
  • Charles Wilbert White
  • Charles W. White
Born
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died
Los Angeles, California, United States
Biography

Born 1918, Chicago, Illinois; studied School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League of New York, Taller de Grafica, Mexico; taught at Southside Art Center, Chicago, 1939–40; Howard University, 1945; Workshop School of Advertising Art, 1950–53; now teaches at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California; National Scholarship Award, 1937; Julius Rosenwald Fellowship, 1942–43; National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant, 1952; John Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship, 1955.

Important exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago, 1938; Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1940; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 1941 ; Baltimore Museum of Art, 1944; Brooklyn Museum, 1945; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1951 ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1952; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1958; Long Beach Museum of Art, 1959; Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois, 1965.

Ten Negro Artists from the United States: First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal, 1966 (New York: United States Committee for the First World Festival of Negro Arts, Inc., 1966)

Works by this artist (4 items)

Charles White, The Children, 1950, ink and graphite on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Julie Seitzman and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2009.13
The Children
Date1950
ink and graphite on paper
Not on view
Charles White, Love Letter, 1971, color lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of June Wayne, 1991.179.14, © 1971, Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles
Love Letter
Date1971
color lithograph on paper
Not on view
Charles White, Love Letter, 1971, color lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of June Wayne, 1991.179.15, © 1971, Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles
Love Letter
Date1971
color lithograph on paper
Not on view
Charles White, Hasty B, 1970, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1979.155.1
Hasty B
Date1970
lithograph on paper
Not on view