Charles White
American artist, 1918–1979
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- artists
- male
- African American
American artist and illustrator, 1879–1960
American painter, illustrator, and muralist, 1868–1955
American painter, illustrator, author, 1895–1976
Charles White
BiographyCharles White was an artist from Chicago’s South Side whose work illustrated African American iconography. After attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, White became an important figure in the Chicago Black Renaissance and joined the Works Progress Administration in 1938, first as an easel painter and later in the mural division White moved to Los Angeles in 1956 and taught at Otis Art Institute from 1965 until 1979. His career and portfolio consist of various murals, drawings, prints, and paintings, exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2018-19, Charles White: A Retrospective was on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
