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Biography [[image]] CHARLES W. WHITE BORN Chicago, Illinois, April 2, 1918 STUDIED Art Institute of Chicago Art Students League of New York Taller de Grafica, Mexico, D.F. MEMBER Artist Equity Association National Conference of Artists TAUGHT AT Workshop School of Advertising Art (1950-1953) Southside Art Center of Chicago (1939-1940) Artist-in-Residence, Howard University (1945) COLLECTIONS Atlanta University • Howard University • Fisk University • Tuskegee Institute • Hampton Institute • Neward Museum • Whitney Museum • American Federation of Arts • Academy of Arts and Letters • Library of Congress (Pennell Fund Purchase) • Joseph H. Hirshorn Collection • Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C. Long Beach Museum of Art • Taller de Grafica, Mexico City, D.F. • Deutsche Akademie Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany • Museums in: South America • Soviet Union • Poland • China • Hungary • Czechoslovakia. Private Collections in: Brazil, France, Italy, England, Switzerland, Japan, Africa, India, Canada. Private Collection in United States (partial list) SIDNEY POITIER HARRY BELAFONTE ROLAND HAYES CARLTON MOSS PAUL ROBESON DAVID STONE MARTIN DR. EDMUND GORDON PROF. JAMES V. HERRING PAYSON WOLFF LEO BRANTON, JR. STANLEY KRAMER ABRAM GINNES MAX GORDON TOM PEDI MAX YOUNGSTEIN NAT COLE GEORGE ANTON DAVID A. BROWN WILLIAM BRUCK HERBERT BUSEMANN THE BROWN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. AWARDS Art Institute of Chicago Scholarship - 1937 • National Scholarship award - 1937 • American Negro Exposition - 1940 • Julius Rosenwald Fellowship - 1942 - 1943 • Edward B. Alford Award, Atlanta University - 1946 • Atlanta University Purchase Awards - 1946 - 1949 - 1951 - Prints • Second Atlanta University Award (popular ballot) - 1953 • National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant - 1952 • American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints - John Hay Whitney Fellowship - 1955 • Gold Medal Int'l Graphic Show, Leipzig, Germany - 1960 • "New Vistas in American Art," Purchase Award, Howard University - 1961 • Atlanta University Purchase Award - 1961. EXHIBITIONS (National and Group Shows, partial list) Art Institute of Chicago - 1938 • Howard University, Washington, D.C. - 1940 • Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. - 1941 • Smith College Museum of Art - 1943 • Institute of Modern Art, Boston, Mass. - 1943 • Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia - 1943 • Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Maryland - 1944 • Newark, N.J. - 1944 • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. - 1945 • San Francisco Museum of Art, S.F., Calif. - 1946 • Whitney Museum, New York - 1951 • American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1952 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - 1952 • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. - 1954 • Renaissance Society of The University of Chicago - 1944 • Contemporary Paintings, Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City - 1955 • University of Utah - 1958 • Long Beach Museum of Art - 1959 • International Exhibition of Art, Leipzig, Germany - 1959. ONE MAN SHOWS Barnett-Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C. - 1947 •ACA Gallery, New York - 1947 - 1949 - 1951 - 1953 • Pyramid Club, Philadelphia, Penn. - 1954 • ACA Gallery, New York - 1958 - 1961 • New York University - 1949 • Hunter College - 1949 • University of Southern California - 1958 • Pacific Town Club, Los Angeles - 1959 Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, 1964 • Occidental College, March, 1964 • University of Judaism, April, 1964 PUBLICATIONS Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin The Negro in Art by Dr. Alain Locke Association in Negro Folk Education Washington, D.C. American Negro Art by Cedric Dover New York Graphic Society & Studio Books Longacre Press, Ltd. - 1960 Natural Figure Drawing by Anton Refregier Tudor Publishing Co., N.Y. The Negro Artist Comes of Age Albany Institute of History and Art Portfolio of 6 drawings The Art of Charles White New Century Publishers. N.Y. Paul Robeson - Itt Allok Europa Konyvkiado Budapest, 1958 Fur das Algerische Kind Aus Mein Weg zur Kunst von Charles White Schweiz Arbeiter und Bauernhilfe, Zurich, 1958 Charles White Ein Kunstler Amerikas Veb Verlag Der Kunst, Dresden, 1954 LISTED IN Who's Who in American Art - Who's Who in The East MURALS Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois DESIGNER OF Record Album Covers • Book Jackets • Special Graphic Effects for the film "Anna Lucasta," Released by United Artists - 1958 • Special Drawings for the Harry Belafonte TV Show, NBC - 1960. REPRESENTED BY Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles • ACA Gallery, New York STATEMENT ON PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY It is a glorious experience being an artist - to seek the meaning of truth, reality, beauty, in short - to meet the challenge of life through one's sensitivities. For me, art is a very personal intimate communicative affair. The most tangible means of establishing a rapport with my fellow man and relating to society with a oneness of thinking and feeling. My work strives to take shape around images and ideas that are centered within the vortex of the life experience of a Negro. I look to the life of my people as the fountainhead of challenging themes and monumental concepts. I strive to create an image that all mankind can personally relate to and see his dreams and ideals mirrored with hope and dignity. Charles White
