Frederick Douglass

Prints and Drawings

1951

Charles White (American, 1918-1979)
printed by Robert Blackburn (American, 1920–2003)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Charles White
Title: Frederick Douglass
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1951
Medium: Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right, in graphite: “CHARLES WHITE -51”; inscribed lower left, in graphite: ““FREDERICK DOUGLASS” 50/PRINTS”; verso, lower right, in graphite: “2” (encircled)
Dimensions: Image: 58 × 42.5 cm (22 7/8 × 16 3/4 in.); Sheet: 74 × 51.7 cm (29 3/16 × 20 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Fisher Fund
Reference Number: 2017.299
Copyright: © The Charles White Archives Inc.

By descent to the artist’s son, C. Ian White, Altadena, Cal.; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017.

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