Art Institute of Chicago

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Charles White · 1953

Provenance

Ownership history

From the artist to A.C.A. Galleries, New York, 1953; sold to Max and Lorraine Gordon, New York, 1953; sold, Derrick Joshua Beard Fine Arts, Chicago to the Art Institute, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Washington, DC, Howard University Gallery of Art, New Vistas in American Art, March-April 1961.
Berlin, Deutschen Akademie der Kunste, "Charles White," 1962 (ill. on cover).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of Twentieth-Century Works on Paper to the Permanent Collection," July 16, 1993–January 23, 1994, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Since the Harlem Renaissance: Sixty Years of African American Art," May 18–August 25, 1996, checklist 5.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Collecting: African-American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago," February 12–May 2003, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great American Drawings," March 18–June 19, 2006, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage," June 14-September 14, 2008.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Charles White: A Retrospective", June 6 - September 3, 2018, cat. 45, pp. 43-44, 108, 128, 199, pl. 43, cat. by Sarah Kelly Oehler, et. al., traveled to New York, The Museum of Modern Art, October 2, 2018 - January 13, 2019, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 17 - June 9, 2019.

Literature

John Pittman, “The Art of Charles White: He Combats the Racists’ Ideas,” The Worker (March 1, 1953), p. 14.
“Charles White: America’s Most Celebrated Negro Artist,” Sepia 11:5 (May 1962), pp. 6–7 (ill.).
Benjamin Horowitz, Images of Dignity: The Drawings of Charles White (Los Angeles, 1969), p. 56 (ill.).
Lynn Moody Igoe, 250 Years of Afro-American Art, An Annotated Bibliography (R.R. Bowker, 1981), p. 1211.
“African Americans in Art,” Museum Studies 24:2 (1999), pp. 206–207, fig. 17.
James N. Wood and Debra Mancoff, Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 292
Andrew Hemingway, Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926–1956 (New Haven, Conn., 2002), pp. 263–64, fig. 188.
Andrea Barnwell, Charles White, David C. Driskell Series of African American Art 1 (Pomegranate, 2002), pp. 56 and 58, pl. 21.
The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 313 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 138.

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