biografía de Charles WHITE (1918-1979)

Lugar de nacimiento: Chicago, IL

Lugar de defunción: Los Angeles, CA

Direcciones: NYC; Los Angeles, CA

Profesión: Painter, graphic artist, educator, lithographer

Estudios: AIC; ASL; Taller Grafica Mex; (hon. D.F.A.), Columbia College (IL) and with Harry Sternberg, Briggs Dyer, George Neal

Exposiciones: American Negro Expo., Chicago, 1940 (award); AIC, 1942; LOC, 1941; Atlanta Univ., 1942-45, 1953 (award), purchase awards in 1946, 1951,1959, 1961; SFMA, 1946; in Japan, India, France; ACA Gal., NYC, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1951 (solos); BMFA, 1943; BM; Smith College, 1943; MMA, 1952 (prize); Oakland Mus., 1966; Howard Univ, 1967; Morgan State College, 1967; Palace of Culture, Warsaw, 1967; Fisk Univ., 1968; Univ. of Dayton, 1968; Central State Col., 1968; Wilberforce Col., 1968; Wright State Univ., 1968; Dayton AI, 1968; Otis AI, 1968; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 1968; Pushkin Mus., Moscow, 1968; Hermitage Mus., Leningrad, 1968; Heritage Gal., Los Angeles, 1968, 1971; Jackson State Col., 1968; Florida A & M Univ., 1968; Johnson C. Smith Univ., 1968; Dartmouth Col., 1968; WMAA, 1950-56,1968, 1971; Charles Bowers Mus., Santa Ana, CA, 1969; "Am. Drawings of the Sixties," New School AC, New York, 1969; Bowdoin Col., 1969; Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1969; Chaffey Col., 1969; Riverside AA, 1969; Claremont Col., 1969; Wisconsin Univ., 1969; Univ. of Calif., 1969-70; "Five Famous Black Artists," BMFA, 1970; Krannert AM, Champaign, IL, 1971; "Three Graphic Artists," LACMA, 1971; NAD, 1972; Clark AI, Williamstown, MA, 1998 ("Progress of the American Negro" mural). Awards: Julius Rosenwald fellow, 1942, 1944; Edward Alford award, 1946; NIAL Grant, 1952; WMAA fellow, 1955; International Shows, Germany, 1960, 1965 (medals); Childe Hassam Award, Am. Acad. Art, 1965; City Council Award, Los Angeles, 1968; Tamarind Fellowship, 1970.

Asociaciones: ANA; Artists Lg. Am.; AEA; Assn. War Veteran Artists of Am.; Black Acad. Arts & Letters (exec. bd. mem.); Nat. Conf. Artists; Otis AA; Pasadena Soc. of Artists; National Center of Afro-American Artists.

Obra: Newark Mus.; MMA; WMAA; LACMA; Howard Univ.; Atlanta Univ.; Barnett Aden Gal.; Oakland Mus.; Tuskegee Inst.; AFA; Academy of Arts & Letters; Long Beach MA; LOC; Hirshhorn Mus.; IBM; National Archives; Syracuse Univ.; Golden State Ins. Co.; Illinois Bell Tel. Co.; Bakersfield Col.; Boston Black United Front Foundation; Flint, MI, Community Schools; Taller de Grafica, Mexico City; Deutsche Acad. der Künste, Berlin; Dresden MA, Germany; Govt of Ghana. Commissions: murals: Assoc. Negro Press, 1940; Five Great American Negroes," Chicago Pub. Lib., 1940; Hampton Inst., VA, 1943."

Comentarios: Among the best-known African-American artists of the 20th century. White's early work, concerned with issues of race and suffering, was part of the social realist tradition. His later work was more inward in nature, while still dealing with the struggles of humanity. Teacher: Southside AC, Chicago, 1939-40; Geo. Washington Carver Sch., NYC, 1943-45; Howard Univ., 1945; Workshop School Art, 1950-53; Otis AI, 1965-. At one time he was married to artist Elizabeth Catlett. Illustrator: Four Took Freedom 1967; and Black History 1968. Doubleday.

Fuentes: WW73; A. Locke, The Negro in Art 1940; B. Horowitz, Images of Dignity, Drawings of Charles White 1967; Cederholm, Afro-American Artists; Driskell, Hidden Heritage, 76-77.