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William Davidson White

American artist and illustrator, 1896–1971

BiographyWhite was born in Wilmington, Delaware and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and with Gayle Porter Hoskins and Harvey Dunn (both students of Howard Pyle). For several years he worked as a documentary artist for Phelps Dodge, a mining corporation.