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92-957: Charles or Charlie White (or occasionally Whyte ) may refer to: Artists and authors [ edit ] Charles White (artist) (1918–1979), African-American painter, printmaker, muralist Charles White (writer) (1845–1922), Australian journalist and author Charlie White (artist) (born 1972), American photographer Politics [ edit ] Charles Frederick White (1863–1923), British MP for West Derbyshire, 1918–1923 Charles Frederick White (politician, born 1891) (1891–1956), British MP for West Derbyshire, 1944–1950 Charles A. White (1882–1925), American organized labor lobbyist, Illinois state representative Charles William White (1838–1890), Member of Parliament for Tipperary, 1866–1875 Charles P. White (born 1970), Former Indiana Secretary of State, 2011–2012 Charles White (New Zealand politician) (1880–1966), New Zealand lawyer, member of

184-642: A 1:12 scale showcasing American, European, and Asian architectural and furniture styles from the Middle Ages to the 1930s (when the rooms were constructed). Both the paperweights and the Thorne Rooms are located on the ground floor of the museum. The museum is most famous for its collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, widely regarded as one of the finest collections outside of France. Highlights include more than 30 paintings by Claude Monet , including six of his Haystacks and

276-518: A child, studied modern dance, and was part of theatre groups; however, he stated that art was his true passion. White's mother also took him to the Art Institute of Chicago , where he would read and look at paintings—developing a particular interest in the works of Winslow Homer and George Inness . Since White had little money growing up, he often painted on whatever surfaces he could find including shirts, cardboard, and window blinds. During

368-472: A contest at the Art Institute in 1930, and although not a favorite of some, it won a medal and was acquired by the museum. The Art Institute's ancient collection spans nearly 4,000 years of art and history, showcasing Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Egyptian sculpture, mosaics, pottery, jewelry, glass, and bronze and a robust and well-maintained collection of ancient coins. There are around 5,000 works in

460-555: A critique of the Harlem Renaissance , White's social views changed. He learned after reading Locke's text about important African American figures in American history, and questioned his teachers on why they were not taught to students in school, causing some to label him a "rebel problematic child." White did not graduate from high school, having lost a year due to his refusal to attend class after being disillusioned with

552-561: A fictional character in American Dad! Sir C. A. White (Charles Arnold White, 1858–1931), Indian lawyer and judge Charles Alfred White (1869–1954), Australian Presbyterian minister Charles E. White Jr. (1876–1936), Chicago area architect Charles Lincoln White (1863–1941), President of Colby College, Maine Charles Whyte (1866–1949), Scottish astronomer Cr1TiKaL (Charles White, born 1994), American YouTuber and Twitch streamer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

644-667: A great deal of his later years, was renamed Charles White Park—the first park to be named after an American-born artist. The park hosted the Charles White Memorial Arts Festival from 1980 through to the early 1990s, and, in 2021, Altadena Arts hosted the first-ever Altadena Arts Festival, a reiteration of the Charles White Memorial Art Festival focused on celebrating artists of color, women artists, and artists with disabilities. White's works and writings are featured in

736-756: A group of workers in Alabama combined their savings to buy a portfolio and shared the pictures among themselves. In 1956, due to ongoing respiratory issues—potentially related from an earlier case of tuberculosis—White moved to Los Angeles for its drier, more mild climate. From 1965 to his death in 1979, White taught at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles . On faculty at Otis, he was a beacon for African American artists who came to study with him. Among those he taught were Alonzo Davis , David Hammons , and Kerry James Marshall . An elementary school

828-514: A longtime supporter. In 1990, the Art Institute of Chicago sold 11 works at auction, including paintings by Claude Monet , Pablo Picasso , Amedeo Modigliani , Maurice Utrillo and Edgar Degas , to raise the $ 12 million purchase price of a bronze sculpture, Golden Bird , by Constantin Brâncuși . At the time, the sculpture was owned by the Arts Club of Chicago , which was selling it to buy

920-425: A major renovation and expansion project for its facilities. As "one of the most respected museum leaders in the country", as described by The New York Times , Wood created major exhibitions of works by Paul Gauguin , Claude Monet , and Vincent van Gogh that set records for attendance at the museum. He retired from the museum in 2004. The institute began construction of "The Modern Wing", an addition situated on

1012-549: A major traveling retrospective exhibition arose. Ultimately, over approximately a ten year period, staff from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art attempted to locate various White pieces to put together an extensive exhibition of his work. The exhibition opened in Chicago in 2018, traveling to New York City and Los Angeles. White "was a humanist, drawn to the physical body and more literal representations of

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1104-646: A more deepened vision of black society. While in New York, White and Catlett met Viktor Lowenfeld , a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who taught at Hampton Institute in Virginia. Lowenfeld invited the couple to teach at Hampton. While at the Hampton Institute, White painted one of his most well known works, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy . Measuring around 12 feet by seven feet,

1196-595: A musical and was featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte—1884 , is prominently displayed. Additionally, Henri Matisse 's Bathers by a River , is an important example of his work. Highlights of non-French paintings of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection include Vincent van Gogh 's Bedroom in Arles and Self-portrait , 1887. In

1288-459: A new gallery for its other works. In 2005, the museum sold two paintings by Marc Chagall and Auguste Renoir at Sotheby's . In 2011, it auctioned two Picassos ( Sur l'impériale traversant la Seine (1901) and Verre et pipe (1919)), Henri Matisse 's Femme au fauteuil (1919), and Georges Braque 's Nature morte à la guitare (rideaux rouge) (1938) at Christie's in London. In 2002,

1380-560: A number of Water Lilies . Also in the collection are important works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir such as Two Sisters (On the Terrace) , and Gustave Caillebotte 's Paris Street; Rainy Day . Post-Impressionist works include Paul Cézanne 's The Basket of Apples , and Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair. At the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is another highlight. The pointillist masterpiece, which also inspired

1472-639: A number of White's works and has established a dedicated Charles W. White Gallery. In 2015, Drs. Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon of Pomona, New York donated their collection of works by Charles White to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin . In 1982, a retrospective exhibition of White's work was held at the Studio Museum in Harlem . In the 1990s, the idea of staging

1564-623: A railroad and construction worker , on the South Side of Chicago . Ethelene was born in Mississippi and came north in the Great Migration . She raised Charles, and as she had no child care, she would often leave him at the public library . There, White developed an affinity for art and reading. White's mother bought him a set of oil paints when he was seven years old, which hooked White on painting. White also played music as

1656-526: A sage." In November 2019, two works by White went up for the first time in Christie's and Sotheby's main-seasonal New York City contemporary art auctions. Both works, Banner for Willie J. (1976)—a portrait of White's cousin, who was killed during an armed robbery—and Ye Shall Inherit the Earth (1953)—a charcoal drawing of civil rights icon Rosa Lee Ingram with a child in her arms—made sales records for

1748-610: A sculpture garden on the roof of the new wing with the adjacent Millennium Park to the north and a courtyard designed by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. In 2009, the Modern Wing won at the Chicago Innovation Awards. Other notable works are in the collection but the following examples are ones in the public domain and for which pictures are available. In 2018, as it redesigned its website, the Art Institute released images of 52,438 of its public domain works, under

1840-620: A steel mill worker who would become an abusive alcoholic, especially towards White. This experience lead him to escape into art. White had few opportunities to pursue his natural talent at this time due to the abuse and lack of resources from his household which was economically insufficient. This is also the same year his mother began sending him to Mississippi twice a year to his aunts, Hasty and Harriet Baines, where he would learn about his heritage and African American Southern folklore. White showed persistence while battling abuse and poverty. He used his own experiences, curiosity and feelings about

1932-441: A wider public more directly and allowed him to bring together his social commitment and artistic practice. Although he had long been aware of art’s social utility, with his lithographs and linocuts he was finally able to communicate with a large, cross-national community of black workers and socialist artists, as opposed to his paintings, which were generally tied to individual purchasers. He started providing political cartoons for

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2024-583: Is associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , a leading art school, making it one of the few remaining unified arts institutions in the United States. In 1866, a group of 35 artists founded the Chicago Academy of Design in a studio on Dearborn Street, with the intent to run a free school with its own art gallery. The organization was modeled after European art academies, such as

2116-422: Is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present curatorial and scientific research. As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and Ryerson and Burnham Libraries , one of the nation's largest art history and architecture libraries. The museum's building

2208-553: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles White (artist) Following his death in 1979, White's work has been included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago , Los Angeles County Museum of Art , The Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Whitney Museum of American Art , the National Gallery of Art , The Newark Museum , and

2300-453: Is intended to increase space for 19th century, modern, and contemporary art. The design and placement of the new gallery or gallery building are yet to be decided. Located on the ground floor of the museum is the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries . The Libraries' collections cover all periods of art, but is most known for its extensive collection of 18th to 20th century architecture. It serves

2392-463: Is perhaps Hopper's most famous painting, and one of the most recognizable images in American art . Also well known, American Gothic has been in the museum's collection since 1930 and was only loaned outside of North America for the first time in 2016. Wood's painting depicts what has been called "the most famous couple in the world", a dour, rural-American, father and daughter. It was entered into

2484-575: Is set in Chicago. During it, the characters are shown viewing A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte . Hughes had first visited the institute as a "refuge" while in high school. Hughes' commentary on the sequence was used as a reference point by journalist Hadley Freeman in a discussion of the Republican presidential primary candidates in 2011. The paintings used in the 1970 Parker Brothers board game Masterpiece are works held in

2576-938: Is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent." In 1938, White was hired by the Illinois Art Project, a state affiliate of the Works Progress Administration . His work received an extended showing at the Chicago Coliseum during the Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro , which was part of the American Negro Exposition commemorating the 75th anniversary of Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery. An important figure in what became known as

2668-457: The COVID-19 pandemic). It was ranked tenth among the most-visited museums in the United States , and was the sixth most-visited U.S. art museum. As of 2011, the Art Institute continues to rebuild its $ 783 million endowment since the recession . In June 2008, its endowment was $ 827 million. As of 2012, the museum is rated A1 by Moody's , its fifth-highest grade, in part reflecting

2760-906: The Chicago Black Renaissance , White taught art classes at the Southside Community Art Center . Following his first show at Paragon Studios in Cincinnati in 1938, White's work was exhibited widely throughout the United States, including, among many others, exhibitions at the Roko Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , and the Whitney Museum of American Art . In 1939 he produced his WPA mural Five Great American Negroes , now at Howard University Gallery of Art. White also showed at

2852-510: The Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence. During 2009, attendance was around 2 million—up 33 percent from 2008—in addition to a total of approximately 100,000 museum memberships. Despite a 25 percent boost in museum admission fees, the Modern Wing was a major catalyst for a rise in visitor traffic. In 2022, the museum welcomed 1.04 million visitors, an increase of 20 percent from 2021, but still well below 2018 attendance (before

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2944-494: The Daily Worker and, in 1953, he published, in association with Masses and Mainstream , a portfolio of six reproductions of his ink-and-charcoal drawings, entitled Charles White: Six Drawings . Priced at $ 3—about $ 35.23 in 2024—this portfolio aimed at getting art to the people, a main concern for progressive artists of the period. In this respect it was a great success, and White himself acknowledged this when he learned that

3036-467: The Great Depression , White tried to conceal his passion for art in fear of embarrassment; however, this ended when White got a job painting signs at the age of fourteen. White learned how to mix paints by sitting-in every day for a week on an Art Institute sponsored painting class that was taking place at a park near his home. His mother remarried when White's father died in 1926. She married

3128-620: The Manhattan District Attorney 's Office moved to seize Egon Schiele paintings from several museums on the grounds that they had been looted by the Nazis from Fritz Grünbaum , who was killed in the Holocaust . The paintings included, Russian War Prisoner, a watercolor in the Art Institute. The Art Institute continues to hold the work, as it is contesting the seizure in court. According to its investigation, it acquired

3220-548: The Metra Electric and South Shore lines operate below. The lower level of gallery space was formerly the windowless Gunsaulus hall, but is now home to the Alsdorf Galleries showcasing Indian, Southeast Asian and Himalayan Art. During renovation, windows facing north toward Millennium Park were added. The gallery space was designed by Renzo Piano in conjunction with his design of the Modern Wing and features

3312-591: The Royal Academy , with Academicians and Associate Academicians. The academy's charter was granted in March 1867. Classes started in 1868, meeting every day at a cost of $ 10 per month. The academy's success enabled it to build a new home for the school, a five-story stone building on 66 West Adams Street, which opened on November 22, 1870. When the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the building in 1871,

3404-457: The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition , as the World's Congress Auxiliary Building, with the intent that the Art Institute occupy the space after the close of the fair. The Art Institute's entrance on Michigan Avenue is guarded by two bronze lion statues created by Edward Kemeys . The lions were unveiled on May 10, 1894, each weighing more than two tons. The sculptor gave them unofficial names:

3496-415: The Art Institute of Chicago filed suit alleging fraud by a small Dallas firm called Integral Investment Management, along with related parties. The museum, which put $ 43 million of its endowment into funds run by the defendants, claimed that it faced losses of up to 90% on the investments after they soured. In 2010, the year after the opening of its massive Modern Wing, the Art Institute of Chicago sued

3588-475: The Art Institute the world's best museum. The museum received perhaps the largest gift of art in its history in 2015. Collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson donated a "collection [that] is among the world's greatest groups of postwar Pop art ever assembled". The donation includes works by Andy Warhol , Jasper Johns , Cy Twombly , Jeff Koons , Charles Ray , Richard Prince , Cindy Sherman , Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Richter . The museum agreed to keep

3680-740: The Manchester Royal Infirmary Charles Abiathar White (1826–1910), American geologist, paleontologist, and writer Charles M. White (1891–1977), American steel industrialist Charles Daniel White (1879–1955), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church Charles Ignatius White (1807–1878), American editor, historian, and Catholic priest Charles White (chef) (born 1976), American trained chef and author Charles "Charlie" White (1815–1900), minstrel performer and theater manager Chuck White,

3772-887: The New Zealand Legislative Council Sports [ edit ] Charles White (American football) (1958–2023), American football player, Heisman Trophy winner Charles "Tom" White (athlete) (1917–1985), English runner Charlie White (footballer) (1889–1925), English football player for Watford Charlie White (figure skater) (born 1987), American ice dancer Charles White (cricketer) (1823–1873), cricketer Charlie White (rugby union) (1874–1941), Australian rugby union player Charlie White (baseball) (1927–1998), Major League Baseball catcher Others [ edit ] Charles White (Dr Rock) (born 1942), Irish-born BBC Radio and television presenter Charles White (physician) (1728–1813), English surgeon and man-midwife, co-founder of

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3864-632: The Palace of Culture in Warsaw and the Pushkin Museum. In 1976 his work was featured in Two Centuries of Black American Art , LACMA's first exhibition devoted exclusively to African-American Artists . White moved to New Orleans in 1941 to teach at Dillard University . That same year, he married sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett , who also taught at Dillard. He served in

3956-509: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art. White's best known work is The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy , a mural at Hampton University . In 2018, the centenary year of his birth, the first major retrospective exhibition of his work was organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art . Charles Wilbert White was born on April 2, 1918, to Ethelene Gary, a domestic worker , and Charles White Sr.,

4048-624: The US Army during WWII, but was discharged when he contracted tuberculosis . In 1942, White and Catlett moved to New York City . While in New York City, White learned lithography and etching techniques at the Arts Student League , taking direction from renowned artist Harry Sternberg , who encouraged him to move beyond “stylization to individuation in his figures.” It was here that White honed his technical skills and developed

4140-476: The academy was thrown into debt. Attempts to continue despite the loss by using rented facilities failed. By 1878, the academy was $ 10,000 in debt. Members tried to rescue the ailing institution by making deals with local businessmen, before some finally abandoned it in 1879 to found a new organization, named the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts . When the Chicago Academy of Design went bankrupt the same year,

4232-646: The art of the Byzantine Empire to contemporary American art. It is principally known for one of the United States' finest collection of paintings produced in Western culture. The Art Institute's African Art and Indian Art of the Americas collections are on display across two galleries in the south end of the Michigan Avenue building. The African collection includes more than 400 works that span

4324-626: The artist's work. Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago , founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago 's Grant Park . Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, includes works such as Georges Seurat 's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte , Pablo Picasso 's The Old Guitarist , Edward Hopper 's Nighthawks , and Grant Wood 's American Gothic . Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art

4416-439: The best-known works in the American canon, including Edward Hopper 's Nighthawks , Grant Wood 's American Gothic , and Mary Cassatt 's The Child's Bath . The collection ranges from colonial silver to modern and contemporary paintings. The museum purchased Nighthawks in 1942 for $ 3,000; its acquisition "launched" the painting into "immense popular recognition". Considered an "icon of American culture", Nighthawks

4508-572: The blather, the letter basically said the museum had looked critically at its corps of docents, a group dominated by mostly (but not entirely) white, retired women with some time to spare, and found them wanting as a demographic." The Chair of the Institute's Board of Trustees, Robert M. Levy, responded in a Tribune op-ed supporting the change, and described the Tribune 's editorial as having "numerous inaccuracies and mischaracterizations", noted that

4600-551: The board) the Logan Medal of the Arts , an award which became one of the most distinguished awards presented to artists in the U.S. Between 1959 and 1970, the institute was a key site in the battle to gain art and documentary photography a place in galleries, under curator Hugh Edwards and his assistants. As director of the museum starting in the early 1980s, James N. Wood conducted a major expansion of its collection and oversaw

4692-614: The building was completed in time for the second year of the fair. Construction costs were met by selling the Michigan/Van Buren property. On October 31, 1893, the institute moved into the new building. For the opening reception on December 8, 1893, Theodore Thomas and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed. From the early 1900s to the 1960s the school offered with the Logan Family (members of

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4784-491: The collection, offering a comprehensive survey of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world, beginning with the third millennium B.C. and extending to the Byzantine Empire . The collection also holds the mummy and mummy case of Paankhenamun. The Department of Architecture and Design holds more than 140,000 works, from models to drawings from the 1870s to the present day. The collection covers landscape architecture , structural engineering , and industrial design , including

4876-953: The collections of Atlanta University , the Barnett-Aden Gallery , Howard University , the Library of Congress , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Minneapolis Institute of Art , the Oakland Museum , the Smithsonian American Art Museum , the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Syracuse University and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts . The CEJJES Institute of Pomona, New York, owns

4968-405: The continent, highlighting ceramics, garments, masks, and jewelry. The Amerindian collection includes Native North American art and Mesoamerican and Andean works. From pottery to textiles, the collection brings together a wide array of objects that seek to illustrate the thematic and aesthetic focuses of art spanning the Americas. The Art Institute's American Art collection contains some of

5060-442: The court filing provided detailed evidence that provenance documents provided by the Swiss art dealer Eberhard Kornfeld contained forged signatures or were altered long after he came into possession of the paintings and sold them to other art dealers in the mid-1950s. Court hearings on the matter are expected in 2024. Director John Hughes included a sequence in the Art Institute in his 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off , which

5152-416: The docent program had already been largely on pause for the past 15 months due to the COVID pandemic , and argued that the decision was not about anyone's identity, it was in keeping with changing modern museum practices around the world. Following a volunteerism surge in the late 1940s, the program had been created in 1961 to revitalize and expand "programming for children." Among other matters, since 2014

5244-500: The donated work on display for at least 50 years. In June 2018, the museum received a $ 50 million donation, the largest single announced unrestricted monetary donation in its history. A $ 75 million donation in 2024 is to go toward a new gallery. The collection of the Art Institute of Chicago encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world and contains more than 300,000 works of art in 11 curatorial departments, ranging from early Japanese prints to

5336-416: The endowment. Around $ 370 million were raised primarily from private patrons in Chicago. In 2011, the Art Institute received a $ 10 million gift from the Jaharis Family Foundation to renovate and expand galleries devoted to Greek, Roman and Byzantine art, and to support acquisitions and special exhibitions of that art. In 2016 the Art Institute received a $ 35 million gift from Dorothy Braude Edinburg,

5428-430: The engineering firm Ove Arup for $ 10 million over what it said were flaws in the concrete floors and air-circulation systems. The suit was settled out of court . In 2021, the Art Institute ended its unpaid volunteer docents program to move to a paid model. The Chicago Tribune editorial page criticized the Institute's letter announcing the change and the move to a new model, arguing that "[o]nce you cut through

5520-407: The fact that throughout the ’80s and ’90s, artists of color were rare in an industry that endorses the work of white men at the exclusion of everyone else.” Additionally, “during his lifetime and in the decades following, the figurative art that White championed was overshadowed by a more abstract or conceptual style.” Shortly after White's death, a park in Altadena, California , where he spent

5612-408: The history of the artform from its inception in 1839 to the present. The print and drawings collection began with a donation by Elizabeth S. Stickney of 460 works in 1887, and was organized into its own department of the museum in 1911. Their holdings have subsequently grown to 11,500 drawings and 60,000 prints, ranging from 15th-century works to contemporary. The collection contains a strong group of

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5704-409: The largest public display of Joseph Cornell 's works (37 boxes and collages). The Wing also houses contemporary art from after 1960; new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries including original renderings by Frank Lloyd Wright , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Bruce Goff ; temporary exhibition space; shops and classrooms; and a cafe. In addition, the Nichols Bridgeway connects

5796-608: The lives of African-Americans," according to Lauren Warnecke for the Chicago Tribune . While this put him out of step with the abstract movement in art, the power of his work is undeniable according to the Los Angeles Times ' Christopher Knight , especially White's graphic work in graphite, charcoal, crayon and ink. The Washington Post art critic, Philip Kennicott finds White's work central to American art. "Grace, passion, coolness, toughness, [and] beauty" mark White's work, according to Holland Cotter in The New York Times ; White had "the hand of an angel" and "the eye of

5888-518: The mid-1930s, the Art Institute received a gift of over one hundred works of art from Annie Swan Coburn ("Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection"). The "Coburn Renoirs" became the core of the Art Institute's Impressionist painting collection. The collection also includes the Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor holdings, including the George F. Harding Collection of arms and armor, and three centuries of Old Masters works. The museum's collection of modern and contemporary art

5980-570: The mural depicts a number of notable African-Americans including Denmark Vesey , Nat Turner , Peter Salem , George Washington Carver , Harriet Tubman , Frederick Douglass , and Marian Anderson . In 1946, White and Catlett received a Rosenwald Fund Fellowship, which enabled them to move to Mexico City . There, White and Catlett joined the Taller de Gráfica Popular , an influential print shop collective focused on using art to advance revolutionary social causes. The couple divorced shortly after moving to Mexico. Printmaking enabled White to reach

6072-428: The museum is marked by the stone arch entrance to the old Chicago Stock Exchange . Designed by Louis Sullivan in 1894, the Exchange was demolished in 1972, but salvaged portions of the original trading room were brought to the Art Institute and reconstructed. The Art Institute building has the unusual property of straddling open-air railroad tracks. Two stories of gallery space connect the east and west buildings while

6164-415: The museum staff, college and university students, and is also open to the general public. The Friends of the Libraries, a support group for the Libraries, offers events and special tours for its members. On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Wing, the largest expansion in the museum's history. The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m ) addition, designed by Renzo Piano , makes the Art Institute

6256-436: The museum's pension and retirement liabilities; Standard & Poor's rates the museum A+, fifth-best. In October 2012, the Art Institute sold about $ 100 million of taxable and tax-exempt bonds partly to shore-up unfunded pension obligations. The $ 294 million extension in 2009 was the culmination of a $ 385 million fundraising campaign—roughly $ 300 million for design and construction and $ 85 million for

6348-488: The neglected history of African Americans to help shape a common theme within his work. An early activist, as a teenager, he volunteered his talents and became the house artist at the National Negro Congress in Chicago. Later, in a union with fellow black artists, White was arrested while picketing. White won a grant during the seventh grade to attend Saturday art classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. After reading Alain Locke's book The New Negro: An Interpretation ,

6440-400: The new Chicago Academy of Fine Arts bought its assets at auction. In 1882, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts changed its name to the current Art Institute of Chicago and elected as its first president the banker and philanthropist Charles L. Hutchinson , who "is arguably the single most important individual to have shaped the direction and fortunes of the Art Institute of Chicago". Hutchinson

6532-423: The organization's headquarters, and a new addition was constructed behind it to provide gallery space and to house the school's facilities. By January 1885 the trustees recognized the need to provide additional space for the organization's growing collection, and to this end purchased the vacant lot directly south on Michigan Avenue. The commercial building was demolished, and the noted architect John Wellborn Root

6624-581: The present. From English needlework to Japanese garments to American quilts, the collection presents a diverse group of objects, including contemporary works and fiber art . The current building complex at 111 South Michigan Avenue is the third address for the Art Institute. Situated in Grant Park , it was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge of Boston to host national and international meetings held in conjunction with

6716-520: The program had been trying to attract a more diverse socioeconomic perspective set of art-tour guides, given the unpaid time commitment needed. In 1996, heirs to Jewish art collectors Louise and Friedrich Gutmann , who died in Nazi concentration camps, sued museum trustee Daniel Searle for the return of the Edgar Degas painting, Landscape with Smokestacks . After years of litigation a settlement

6808-526: The quiet and meditative way in which Japanese screens are traditionally viewed. The Art Institute's collection of European decorative arts includes some 25,000 objects of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, glass, enamel, and ivory from 1100 AD to the present day. The department contains the 1,544 objects in the Arthur Rubloff Paperweight Collection and the 68 Thorne Miniature Rooms –a collection of miniaturized interiors of

6900-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_White&oldid=1246596833 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

6992-460: The same window screening used there to protect the art from direct sunlight. The upper level formerly held the modern European galleries, but was renovated in 2008 and now features the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist galleries. In September 2024, the museum announced a gift of $ 75 million for a new gallery building or wing named for benefactors Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed. The gallery

7084-515: The second floor, contains works by Andy Warhol , Cindy Sherman , Cy Twombly , Jackson Pollock , Jasper Johns , and other significant modern and contemporary artists. The Art Institute did not officially establish a photography collection until 1949, when Georgia O'Keeffe donated a significant portion of the Alfred Stieglitz collection to the museum. Since then, the museum's collection has grown to approximately 20,000 works spanning

7176-584: The second-largest museum in the US. The architect of record in the City of Chicago for this building was Interactive Design. The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art, including Pablo Picasso 's The Old Guitarist , Henri Matisse 's Bathers by a River , and René Magritte 's Time Transfixed . The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection of Surrealist art includes

7268-516: The south lion is "stands in an attitude of defiance", and the north lion is "on the prowl". When a Chicago sports team plays in the championships of their respective league (i.e. the Super Bowl or Stanley Cup Finals, not the entire playoffs), the lions are frequently dressed in that team's uniform. Evergreen wreaths are placed around their necks during the Christmas season. The east entrance of

7360-681: The southwest corner of Columbus and Monroe in the early 21st century. The project, designed by Pritzker Prize –winning architect Renzo Piano , was completed and officially opened to the public on May 16, 2009. The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m ) building addition made the Art Institute the second-largest art museum in the United States. The building houses the museum's world-renowned collections of 20th and 21st century art, specifically modern European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, architecture and design, and photography. In its inaugural survey in 2014, travel review website and forum, Tripadvisor , reviewed millions of travelers' surveys and named

7452-555: The teaching system. While he was encouraged by his art teachers to submit his art works and won various scholarships, these would later be declared an "error" and be taken away from him and given to whites instead. He was admitted to two art schools, each then pulled his acceptance because of his race. White ultimately received a full scholarship to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , where he studied from 1937 to 1938. While there, White identified Mitchell Siporin , Francis Chapin , and Aaron Bohrod as his influences. He

7544-521: The watercolor drawing in 1966 from an American art dealer through a proper provenance from Grünbaum's legal heir, and it also argues that the claim is time-barred because Grünbaum's heirs were aware. In February 2024, the Manhattan District Attorney filed a motion accusing the Art Institute of "blatantly ignoring evidence of an elaborate fraud undertaken to conceal that the artwork had been looted". According to The New York Times ,

7636-411: The works of Albrecht Dürer , Rembrandt van Rijn , Francisco Goya , and James McNeill Whistler . Because works on paper are sensitive to light and degrade quickly, the works are on display infrequently in order to keep them in good condition for as long as possible. The Department of Textiles has more than 13,000 textiles and 66,000 sample swatches in total, covering an array of cultures from 300 BC to

7728-489: The works of Frank Lloyd Wright , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , and Le Corbusier . The Art Institute's Asian collection spans nearly 5,000 years, including significant works and objects from China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, and the Near and Middle East. There are 35,000 objects in the collection, showcasing bronzes, ceramics, jades, textiles, screens, woodcuts, and sculptures. One gallery in particular attempts to mimic

7820-411: Was a director of many prominent Chicago organizations, including the University of Chicago , and would transform the Art Institute into a world-class museum during his presidency, which he held until his death in 1924. Also in 1882, the organization purchased a lot on the southwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street for $ 45,000. The existing commercial building on that property was used for

7912-680: Was about something : history, culture, politics, social issues. (...) It was just a matter of mastering the skills to actually do it.” He also inspired a generation of socially conscious African American artists like Benny Andrews , Faith Ringgold , and Dana Chandler and regularly attended exhibitions in Black art spaces like the Brockman Gallery, Gallery 32 and the Heritage Gallery. White's popularity faded after his death. According to M.H. Miller, “Part of this had to do with

8004-420: Was an excellent draftsman, completing five drawing courses and received a final "A grade." To pay the costs of art supplies, White became a cook, using his mother's instruction and recipes. White later became an art teacher at St. Elizabeth Catholic High School. In 1940, White stated in an interview, "I am interested in the social, even the propagandistic angle of painting that will say what I have to say. Paint

8096-494: Was concluded which involved the acquisition of the painting by the Art Institute. A collection of approximately 500 objects from Nepal , India and elsewhere in Asia that was donated to the Art Institute by trustee Marilynn Alsdorf in 1989 was later found to contain several objects that were looted; nine objects have been returned by the museum to Nepal over the years, while some additional items are still being contested. In 2023,

8188-456: Was constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and, due to the growth of the collection, several additions have occurred since. The Modern Wing, designed by Renzo Piano , is the most recent expansion, and when it opened in 2009 it increased the museum's footprint to nearly one million square feet. This made it the second largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Art Institute

8280-462: Was hired by Hutchinson to design a building that would create an "impressive presence" on Michigan Avenue, and these facilities opened to great fanfare in 1887. With the announcement of the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1892–93, the Art Institute pressed for a building on the lakefront to be constructed for the fair, but to be used by the institute afterwards. The city agreed, and

8372-685: Was named after him and is located on the former Otis College campus. White was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1972. Later in life, White moved to Altadena, California , where he remained until his death of congestive heart failure in 1979. During his time at the Otis Art Institute, White was a mentor for many young Black artists, including  Kerry James Marshall , Richard Wyatt Jr. , David Hammons , and Alonzo Davis . Marshall reflected that “Under [his] influence I always knew that I wanted to make work that

8464-418: Was significantly augmented when collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson gifted 40 plus master works to the department in 2015. Pablo Picasso 's Old Guitarist , Henri Matisse 's Bathers by a River , Constantin Brâncuși 's Golden Bird , and René Magritte 's Time Transfixed are highlights of the modern galleries, located on the third floor of the Modern Wing. The contemporary installation, located on

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