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Happy Birthday to Charles White who was born on this day in 1918!

Wanted Poster Series #11 and Wanted Poster Series #11a, Charles White, 1970, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co. Size: overall (two sheets): 22 9/16 x 32 1/8" (57.3 x 81.6 cm) Medium: Lithograph on two sheets

Parks moved to Chicago in 1941 and became affiliated with the South Side Community Art Center, where he had a studio and darkroom. He developed relationships with a number of artists living and working in Chicago, including Charles White. White encouraged Parks, who was primarily shooting portraits, to take his camera into the streets and document the poverty he found there.

With his own tools in hand, White is featured in front of his mural, Chaos of the American Negro. What strategies does Parks use in his composition to communicate his respect for this artist? Compare this portrait with Parks’s Self-Portrait also taken in 1941 (Slide 1). What similarities and differences do you notice?

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This, My Brother, Charles White, 1942, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Pauline Palmer Prize Fund Size: 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

For the start of Black History Month, we’ve got books on legendary Black artists, such as Bill Traylor, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Alma Thomas, Betye Saar, Norman Lewis, and more! Titles are listed below.

Romare Bearden : idea to realization / essay by Sarah E. Lewis ; [descriptive texts, Ralph Sessions]. HOLLIS Number: 990129015530203941

Charles White : a retrospective / edited by Sarah Kelly Oehler and Esther Adler ; with essays by Esther Adler [and five others] ; and a preface by Kerry James Marshall. HOLLIS Number: 99153718620103941

Betye Saar : Black girl's window / Esther Adler and Christophe Cherix. HOLLIS Number: 99153808481003941

Bill Traylor: drawings from the collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts / essays by Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Leslie H. Paisley, Fred Barron, Jeffrey Wolf. HOLLIS Number: 990133200900203941

Between worlds : the art of Bill Traylor / Leslie Umberger ; with an introduction by Kerry James Marshall. HOLLIS Number: 99153740609503941

Procession : the art of Norman Lewis / edited by Ruth Fine ; with contributions by David Acton [and five others]. HOLLIS Number: 990145245230203941

Alma Thomas / editors, Ian Berry and Lauren Haynes. HOLLIS Number: 990148627750203941

Jacob Lawrence : the complete prints (1963-2000) : a catalogue raisonné / Peter T. Nesbett ; with an essay by Patricia Hills. HOLLIS Number: 990088103850203941

The art of William Edmondson / with essays by Robert Farris Thompson ... [et al.]. HOLLIS Number: 990084316060203941

Love Letter #1, Charles White, 1971, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

John B. Turner Fund Size: composition and sheet: 30 1/16 x 22 3/8" (76.4 x 56.8 cm) Medium: Lithograph