Sojourner Truth and Booker T. Washington
Artist
Charles Wilbert White
(American, 1918 - 1979)
Date1943
DimensionsFramed: H 45 1/4 x W 35 1/2 x D 2 1/8 in. (H 114.9 x W 90.2 x D 5.4 cm)
Image: H 37 5/8 x W 28 in. (H 95.6 x W 71.1 cm)
Image: H 37 5/8 x W 28 in. (H 95.6 x W 71.1 cm)
Credit LinePurchase 1944 Sophronia Anderson Bequest Fund
Object number44.100
On View
Not on viewObject NameDrawing
Inscriptionsrecto: l.r. graphite "Charles / White / '43"Marks and Labels/Stampsverso: right edge (3 times) and left edge (2 times), blue ink stamp "Crescent / ILLUSTRATION / NO 300 / A Product of / CHICAGO CARDBOAR / COMPANY";
on file from old backing: printed and typed paper label "TWO CENTURIES OF BLACK AMERICAN ART / LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART / Los Angeles, California / No: ex.76.1193 Cat. #172 / ARTIST: Charles White / TITlE: SOJOURNER TRUTH AND BOOKER T. WASHINGTON / MEDIUM: Charcoal on paper / SOURCE: Newark Museum / Siaze: 37 x 27 1/2 (sight) / 76L49Z - cdb 8-69"
ProvenanceAquired from the artist, New York, New YorkExhibition History"Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9/5/2023- 12/10/2023 "Charles White: A Retrospective", Art Institute of Chicago, 6/8/2018 - 9/3/2018, The Museum of Modern Art, 10/2/2018 - 1/13/2019, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 3/3/2019 - 6/9/2019
"20th Century Afro-American Artists: Selections from the Collection of the Newark Museum," The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (June 18-October 14, 1985)
"Black Artists: Two Generations," The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (May 13-September 6, 1971)
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