WHITE CHARLES Two fine untitled drawings one on each side of

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DOUBLE SIDED PAINTINGS WHITE, CHARLES. Two fine untitled drawings, one on each side of a single sheet. Man from shoulders up with hands held up before his face * Young Mexican woman with a small child on her shoulder. The first is color casein and crayons, signed in casein, center left. The other in pencil and tempera, annotated "Mexico '47" lower left. On both sides of a single sheet of Arches paper; 22x293/4 inches. Mexico, 1947

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White (1918-1979), born in Chicago, worked as a sign painter and founded the Arts and Crafts Guild with George Neal. He taught at the Chicago Community Art Center in the mid-1930s and in 1937 received a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago. White worked as a W.P.A. muralist and studied mural painting in New York at the Art Students League. Later he became involved with Rivera and other Mexican muralists and focused on social issues of black people. White formed the Committee for the Negro in Arts in New York in 1949.