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CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979) We Have Been Believers.
Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1949. 296x276 mm; 11 5/8x10 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 30. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Titled and inscribed "ed. 30" in pencil in a different hand, lower margin. Printed by Robert Blackburn, New York.
In 1949, Blackburn was Charles White's primary printer in New York. The original charcoal drawing, the basis for the print, is found in the Walter O. Evans Collection. The drawing was inspired by a poem of the same title by Margaret Walker about the sustaining power of African-American religious faith. Gedeon Ea8.
