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CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979) After Attempting to Escape, Frederick Douglass was Put in Jail.

CHARLES WHITE (1918 - 1979)
After Attempting to Escape, Frederick Douglass was Put in Jail.

Pen and ink over pencil with gouache corrections, 1964. 407x280 mm; 16x11 inches. Initialed in ink, lower right.

Exhibited at Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles, 1968; Spelman College Atlanta, 1975; Otis Parsons Art Institute, New York, October 1 - December 31, 1979 and the Biennale of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic, with the labels on the frame back.

Illustrated in Philip Sterling and Rayford Logan, Phd., Four Took Freedom: The Lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Blanche K. Bruce, p. 40. Gedeon D198.

One of a series of 19 pen and ink drawings by the artist for this volume.

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