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Grandpa and the library : how Charles White learned to paint

Title: Grandpa and the library : how Charles White learned to paint / C. Ian White.
Author: White, C. Ian
Publication: New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2018]

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36 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

Every day, young Charles White's mother takes him the Chicago Public Library, where the librarians look after him until she picks him up again after work, at six o'clock. At the library Charles looks carefully at the picture books the librarians give him and also at the people around him, later drawing what he sees on scraps of paper at home. He learns to be patient and observant, and, by watching art students painting in the park, how to mix and use oil paints. As he grows into an artist, he paints the people he sees and admires. Ultimately, Charles becomes a great artist whose works now hang in museums throughout the United States. Written and illustrated by White's son, C. Ian White, and featuring full-color reproductions of Charles White's artworks, this deeply personal story traces the childhood influences that inspired young Charles to become an artist and a teacher.--

Alternative Title

How Charles White learned to paint

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Call Number

Sc+ G 18-81

ISBN

1633450651
9781633450653

OCLC

1043608886

Author

White, C. Ian, author.

Title

Grandpa and the library : how Charles White learned to paint / C. Ian White.

Publisher

New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2018]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

White, Charles, 1918-1979.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), publisher.

Schomburg Children's Collection.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 18-81

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