Charles White "Let the Light Enter: Major Drawings, 1942-1969"
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
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"Let the Light Enter, Major Drawings, 1942-1969" will feature a dozen drawings that reveal the extraordinary draftsmanship of an artist dedicated to the heroism, tribulations, hopes, histories, and strengths of known and unknown African Americans. Drawn with bold and courageous lines, his graphite portraits transcend their subjects, revealing a broader human experience. For noted art historian and author James A. Porter, Charles White was one of the great interpreters of the history and culture of black Americans: "Charles is an artist steeped in life; and his informed artistic vision conduces to an understanding of vivid pictorial symbols which, through large as life itself, are altogether free or false or distorted ideas or shallow and dubious emotion."
[Image: Charles White "Frederick Douglass" (1942) charcoal on Stuart illustration board 20 x 15 in.]
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from January 10, 2009 to March 07, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-01-10 from 14:00 to 17:00