The Chicagoborn artist Charles White 191879 was celebrated during his lifetime for depictions of AfricanAmerican men women and children that acquired the name images of dignity. Whites draftsmanship his direct address of the social and political concerns of his time and his commitment to media that gave his art wide circulation established him as a major artist and one with significant influence both on his contemporaries and on later generations. Beginning with Whites early days as an artist