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Charles White (1918 — 1979)



Life Dates
Born 1918, Chicago, IL
Died 1979

Education
1937-1938 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1942-45 The Art Students League, New York, NY
1946-47 Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City, Mexico
Escuela de Pintura y Escultura de la Secretaría de Educación Pública Arte,
Mexico City, Mexico

Selected Museum Collections

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
The City College of New York, New York, NY
Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Deutsche Akademie Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Fisk University Art Galleries, Nashville, TN
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Howard University Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC
Intergrafik, Berlin, Germany
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles State College, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Academy Museum, New York, NY
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH
The National Archives, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, Stockton, CA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY
Selma Burke Art Center, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NB
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY
Taller de Grafica Popular, Mexico City, Mexico
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Academy, Berkeley, CA
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
The Wylie and May Louise Jones Gallery, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA

Solo Exhibitions

1947 American Contemporary Artists Gallery (ACA), New York, NY
1949 Hunter College, New York, NY New York University, New York, NY
1950 American Contemporary Artists Gallery, New York, NY
1951 American Contemporary Artists Gallery, New York, NY
1953 American Contemporary Artists Gallery, New York, NY
1954 Pyramid Club, Philadelphia, PA
1958 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
American Contemporary Artists Gallery, New York, NY
Pacific Town Club, Los Angeles, CA
1961 American Contemporary Artists Gallery, New York, NY
Lincoln Avenue Methodist Church, Pasadena, CA
1964 Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA
1965 American Contemporary Artists Gallery, New York, NY
1966 Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Southern Oregon College, Ashland, OR
1967 Howard University, Washington, DC
Morgan State College, Baltimore, MD
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1968 Fisk University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jackson State College, Jackson, MS
Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL
1969 Charles M. Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
Riverside Art Association, Riverside, CA
Southern Oregon College, Ashland, OR
1970 University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1971 Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign-Urbana, IL
1973 Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Verband Bildener Kunstler, Berlin, Germany
Talladega College, Talladega, AL
1975 Spellman College, Atlanta, GA
James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1976 Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Charles White: An American Experience, High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
1977 Hunter Museum of Fine Arts Chattanooga, TN
West Palm Beach Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Los Angeles Municipal Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles, CA
1978 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Cypress College, Orange County, CA
1979 Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Homage to Charles White, Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Images of Dignity, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Retrospective, Charles White, Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Museum of National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA
Pasadena City College Art Gallery
1983 The CRT’s Craftery Gallery, Hartford, CT
In Memory of Charles White, Museum of African American Art, USC Atelier, Santa Monica, CA
Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Museum of Afro-American History and Culture, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of African American Art, Santa Monica, CA
1991 Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Charles White: American Draftsman, North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Durham, NC
Charles White: Art & Soul–His Legacy, Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Charles White: Let the Light Enter, Major Drawings, 1942-1969, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY

Public Art

1939 Five Great Americans, or Progress of the American Negro, Howard University, Washington, DC
1940 History of the Negro Press, American Negro Exhibition, Chicago, IL
1943 The Contribution of the American Negro to American Democracy, Hampton Institute, Hampton, VA
1978 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune - Last Will and Testament, Mary McLeod Bethune Public Library, Los Angeles, CA

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Exhibitions
African American Art: 200 Years
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, II
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IX
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, V
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VI
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X
Body Beware: 18 American Artists
Charles White: Let the Light Enter
Major Drawings, 1942-1970

Embracing the Muse: Africa and African American Art
Facets of the Figure: A Spectrum of 20th Century American Art
On Paper: The Figure in Twentieth Century American Art