Charles Wilbert White ART FOR SALE

1918 Chicago, Illinois - 1979 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Black-American figure and genre and mural painting.

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The following, submitted June 2005, is from Charlotte Sherman, exhibition catalogue biographer of the artist. Charles Wilbert White was an artist of his people. He always insisted upon the dignity of the individual and respect for the human being. As a spiritual product of his race and environment, he reflected the fact that his grandfather was a slave in Mississippi and his mother had lived most of her life in the South, where little had changed from her father's day. His respect for men, women and children was apparent in this search for the meaning of truth in terms of the daily life and the beauty that can be found through his drawings, paintings and prints. A warm understanding of the meaning of existence, man's aspirations and... Read full biography

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Sound of Silence II

Type:Print

Year:1978

Size:25.00" x 35.25"

Medium:Lithograph

Signed:Signed and Dated

Edition:9/71

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In 1974, Charles White became the second artist to be elected Academician of the National Academy of Design. (Henry Tanner was the first, when he was elected in 1927.) The National Academy is the oldest art organization in America.

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