Provenance: the artist, Los Angeles; Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles; George Anton and David A. Brown, Brown Pharmaceutical Company, Inc., Los Angeles; thence by descent to the current owners, private collection, Los Angeles.
Illustrated: Benjamin Horowitz, Images of Dignity: The Drawings of Charles White, 1967, pg. 73.
At the end of the 1950s, in somewhat of a departure from his earlier social realism, Charles White explored the emotional themes of childhood with his exquisite draftmanship. In the artist's new home in Los Angeles, White was commissioned by the Brown Pharmaceutical Company to create a series entitled "Study for Children's Games" in 1960. Three such images of children playing--Children's Hour, Skipping, now in the collection of George and Joyce Wein, and Game--are illustrated in Images of Dignity. The Brown Pharmaceutical Company also published a portfolio of reproductive prints of his drawings. In 1960, White drew similar images of children playing for a television show for his close friend and collector Harry Belafonte.
