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Charles White, Soldier, 1944.

White was born to working class Black parents on the South Side of Chicago in 1918, and became a figure in Chicago’s artistic Black Renaissance before moving to New York and later California. A humanist, he sought amid prevalent tendencies to abstraction to dis…