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Kent Twitchell
Portrait of Charles White1977

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Full-length graphite portrait drawing on cream paper of an elderly man standing and facing forward, wearing a brimmed hat, glasses, blazer, and turtleneck, mounted on a tall scroll with a wooden base
Graphite drawing, three-quarter length portrait of an older man wearing a straw fedora, aviator glasses, a ribbed turtleneck sweater with a round pendant, and a herringbone blazer, rendered with fine hatching on a pale ground.
Graphite drawing, cropped torso-to-thigh view of a standing figure wearing a herringbone-patterned jacket and light trousers, both hands hanging at sides, rendered with fine, detailed linework on cream paper.
Graphite drawing, close-up of an aged hand hanging at the side of a figure wearing a herringbone-patterned jacket, rendered with dense crosshatching; a thin cord or string hangs from the fingers.
Pencil or graphite drawing, close-up of an aged hand hanging at the side of a figure wearing a herringbone-patterned jacket, rendered with fine hatched linework on off-white paper.

Kent Twitchell, Portrait of Charles White, 1977, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Benjamin Horowitz, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Kent Twitchell
United States, Michigan, Detroit, born 1942
Title
Portrait of Charles White
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1977
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Rolled: 7 × 7 1/4 × 49 in. (17.78 × 18.42 × 124.46 cm) Sheet: 132 × 48 in. (335.28 × 121.92 cm) Image: 132 × 48 in. (335.28 × 121.92 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Benjamin Horowitz
Accession Number
M.91.86
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Adler, Esther. Charles White: Black Pope. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2017.
  • 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
© Kent Twitchell

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