CHARLIE WHITE

The Chicago-born artist Charles White (191879) was celebrated during his lifetime for depictions of African-American men, women and children that acquired the name images of dignity. Whites draftsmanship, his direct address of the social and political concerns of his time, and his commitment to media that gave his art wide circulation established him as a major artist, and one with signific ant influence both on his contemporaries and on later generations.Beginning with Whites early days as an artist in the Chicago of t he 1930s and ...[Llegir més]