44 page softcover catalogue, bound in stiff black paper covers and published on the occasion of the exhibition, Charles White: Let the Light Enter held at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, January 10 - March 7, 2009. Including the cover illustration, the publication contained 10 drawings, beautifully reproduced - 3 in foldout pages. A taped interview with the artist is transcribed, along with an appreciative essay.
Contents as follows:
LET THE LIGHT ENTER - poem by Frances E.W. Harper
AN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES WHITE - transcribed conversation, broadcast on radio in the late 1960s, between Charles White and a now unidentified broadcaster
A SELECTION OF DRAWINGS, 1942 - 1970
CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979) - Biographical outline of the artist, taken from Andrea D. Barnwell's Charles White (The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume I, San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2002). The reference to Barnwell was followed by: "Betty Lochrie Hoag, "Oral history interview with Charles Wilbert White, 1965, Mar. 9," Smithsonian Archives of American Art. A web address followed, with a note that the site had been accessed by the writer November 21
CHARLES WHITE CV
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER (1825 - 1911) - uncredited biographical outline of the poet
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