"Celebrating the Gordon Gift" foregrounds Charles White’s connection to his contemporaries and his participation in larger social and political movements in his life-long career as an artist, activist, and educator. In particular, the exhibition places White’s career-long interest in the human figure in dialogue with Mexican modernists, including artists who worked out of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, where White visited and worked in 1947.
Drawn from the Blanton’s renowned collection of Latin American art, works by Luis Arenal, Leopoldo Méndez, and David Alfaro Siqueiros illuminate the connections between White’s graphic depictions of powerful Black figures and Mexican political printmaking and drawing traditions.
"Celebrating the Gordon Gift" foregrounds Charles White’s connection to his contemporaries and his participation in larger social and political movements in his life-long career as an artist, activist, and educator. In particular, the exhibition places White’s career-long interest in the human figure in dialogue with Mexican modernists, including artists who worked out of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, where White visited and worked in 1947.
Drawn from the Blanton’s renowned collection of Latin American art, works by Luis Arenal, Leopoldo Méndez, and David Alfaro Siqueiros illuminate the connections between White’s graphic depictions of powerful Black figures and Mexican political printmaking and drawing traditions.
"Celebrating the Gordon Gift" foregrounds Charles White’s connection to his contemporaries and his participation in larger social and political movements in his life-long career as an artist, activist, and educator. In particular, the exhibition places White’s career-long interest in the human figure in dialogue with Mexican modernists, including artists who worked out of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, where White visited and worked in 1947.
Drawn from the Blanton’s renowned collection of Latin American art, works by Luis Arenal, Leopoldo Méndez, and David Alfaro Siqueiros illuminate the connections between White’s graphic depictions of powerful Black figures and Mexican political printmaking and drawing traditions.
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