Charles White: The Gordon Gift to The University of Texas - Softcover

Roberts, Veronica

 
9781477320020: Charles White: The Gordon Gift to The University of Texas
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1477320024 ISBN 13: 9781477320020
Publisher: Blanton Museum of Art, UT-Austin, 2019

Synopsis

Charles White (1918–1979), one of the twentieth century’s most accomplished and innovative draftsmen, was also highly regarded as an educator and activist. His life spanned the Great Depression and the WPA era as well as the civil rights movement and the early days of feminism, movements that he not only actively participated in but also shaped. This catalog celebrates the artist’s remarkable career and legacy and the generous gift of artworks to The University of Texas from Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon, lifelong friends of White and his wife, Frances.

In addition to essays on each of the twenty-three works of art owned by The University of Texas and an interview with Edmund Gordon and his son, Ted Gordon, the catalog includes first-person tributes to White from artists, writers, actors, activists, and students whose lives he touched, including fellow artists Margaret Burroughs and Alice Neel; singer Harry Belafonte; poet Langston Hughes; and former students David Hammons, Kent Twitchell, and Kerry James Marshall.

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About the Author

A curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton, Veronica Roberts edited and contributed essays to Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser (2017) and Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt (2014).

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Publisher
Blanton Museum of Art, UT-Austin
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1477320024
ISBN 13 
9781477320020
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
136