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Birth
1918 (Chicago, Illinois)
Death
1979 (Los Angeles, California)
Lived/Active
Illinois/New York/California
Subject to Copyright
Often Known For
black-American figure and genre and mural painting
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The following, submitted June 2005, is from Charlotte Sherman, exhibition catalogue biographer of the artist.
Charles Wilbert White was an artist of his people. He always insisted upon the dignity of the individual and respect for the human being. As a spiritual product of his race and environment, he reflected the fact that his grandfather was a slave in Mississippi and his mother had lived most of her life in the South, where little had changed from her father's day.
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