Charles White (American, 1918–1979)
This, My Brother
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Charles White (American, 1918–1979)1942
This, My Brother
Charles White (American, 1918–1979) →Modernismoil on canvaspainting
Date
1942
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Pauline Palmer Prize Fund
“Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent,” Chicagoan Charles White observed, demonstrating his belief that art could be a force in promoting racial equality for African Americans. This painting of a man with outstretched hands emerging from a demolished structure draws its title from a 1936 novel about a rural white miner who experiences a political awakening and joins the proletarian struggle against capitalism. White transformed the protagonist into a black man who breaks free from a mountain of rubble, a hopeful image of the possibility of social change.
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