CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979) Solid as a Rock (My God is Rock).
Linoleum cut on thin Japan paper, 1960. 1134x305 mm; 38x14 7/8 inches, wide (full?) margins. Second edition (of 2). Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "2ED" and numbered 25 in pencil, lower margin. A dark, proof-like impression of this scarce print with very large margins.
Exhibited: Heritage Galleries, Los Angeles, with the label on the frame back.
Charles White printed Solid as a Rock on an individual basis, instead of in an edition, from his home studio - first in Pasadena from 1958-59, and then in Altadena in 1960.
Lucinda Gedeon notes that the artist alternately dated some impressions 1956 and 1958. Mark Pascale also describes in his retrospective essay "Graphic Interpreter of the Black People: Charles White as Draftsman and Printmaker" how White printed this large block print in his studio home, and was inspired by the examples of Mexican artists in linoleum cut printmaking. Other impressions of this print are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Oehler/Alder pl, 75, cat. 58 and p. 45. Gedeon Eb11.
