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Charles White
Seed of Love1969

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Full-length chalk drawing on dark paper, a young person with dark brown skin in profile, wearing a billowing ruffled blouse, rendered in white chalk with rich textured background

Charles White, Seed of Love, 1969, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Charles White
United States, Illinois, Chicago, 1918-1979
Title
Seed of Love
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1969
Medium
Black ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 51 × 36 in. (129.54 × 91.44 cm) Frame: 59 1/8 × 43 7/8 × 2 in. (150.18 × 111.44 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
M.71.9
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Golden, Thelma; Herbert, Lynn; Siegel, Katie; and Storr, Robert. Art 21: art in the twenty-first century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.
  • Driskell, David C. and Leonard Simon. Two Centuries of Black American Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.
  • The media, style, and tradition of ten California artists : the inaugural exhibition of the California Museum of Afro-American History and Culture, the Loker Gallery, 2 October-14 November 1981. [Los Angeles, Calif. : California Museum of Afro-American History and Culture, 1981?]
  • Eliel, Carol. Helen Pashgian. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2014.
  • Oehler, Sarah Kelly, and Esther Adler, editors. Charles White: a Retrospective. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicage, 2018.
  • Kim, Christine Y., and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews, editors. Black American Portraits: From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books-D.A.P., 2023.
Copyright
© The Charles White Archives

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