WEBVTT 00:02.100 --> 00:05.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: Charles White became part of my household once I came into possession of this work through 00:09.300 --> 00:14.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% my sister-in-law Maria. She gave these to me about a year ago. She thought maybe I should 00:16.166 --> 00:20.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% just frame these and, and share them with my family members. And I said, "No, I think 00:21.833 --> 00:26.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% we should see, you know, get more information about Charles White." 00:26.366 --> 00:31.366 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: Well, you brought in two wonderful sets of prints by Charles White. Charles White 00:33.400 --> 00:38.366 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% is really a fantastic American artist, an African-American artist. And, and these are 00:40.366 --> 00:44.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% very good examples of his work. Charles White is a pre-eminent modern American artist, and 00:46.966 --> 00:51.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% he was born in 1918 in Chicago. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 00:51.900 --> 00:52.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% as a teenager. 00:52.966 --> 00:55.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Uh-huh. 00:55.100 --> 00:58.933 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% APPRAISER: And he rose to prominence, was a part of the WPA program. He did mural paintings. 01:01.000 --> 01:05.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And then he became really known as a graphic artist. His work is in many museum collections. 01:07.433 --> 01:11.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And he was celebrated during his lifetime, but just recently, he's risen to much greater 01:13.933 --> 01:17.233 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% prominence, well deserved. Presently, there's a retrospective of his work that's traveling. 01:17.233 --> 01:22.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% It was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in Chicago, at the Art Institute 01:24.166 --> 01:28.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% of Chicago. And it's now in Los Angeles. He was a political artist, and he wanted to say 01:30.566 --> 01:35.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% more about the African-American experience, the struggles that they were going through, 01:37.600 --> 01:40.833 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% especially in the 1960s, when these were done. These are reproduction prints. They're offset 01:42.866 --> 01:46.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% lithographs of his drawings. And they were printed in the early 1960s with his gallery, 01:48.433 --> 01:53.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Heritage Gallery, and A.C.A. Gallery in New York. And he really wanted to make his work 01:55.200 --> 01:58.933 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% more available. So these portfolios were printed to promote his, his work. They reproduced 02:00.966 --> 02:05.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% his drawings. And you have two sets here. We have a set of six and a set of ten. Each 02:07.100 --> 02:11.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% image is a drawing he did from the time, from, like, the late 1950s and early '60s. This 02:13.300 --> 02:16.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% is what his work was all about. So we actually don't know how many of these are printed in 02:18.866 --> 02:21.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% each edition. The numbers were quite large. I imagine hundreds were printed. The original 02:21.733 --> 02:26.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% drawings would be very large. They were, like, four feet high, five feet wide. 02:27.333 --> 02:29.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Oh! 02:29.400 --> 02:32.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: Artist reproductions usually don't rise to the value that they would be something 02:32.433 --> 02:37.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% you would see at an auction house or a gallery, but these were critical to Charles White's 02:37.200 --> 02:42.200 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% work. He wanted them to be represented. He wanted more people to obtain them. And because 02:44.166 --> 02:47.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% of his significance, because of his importance now, these are highly collectible. And they 02:49.800 --> 02:54.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% are also pristine examples and the complete sets. And that's really the difference. They 02:56.200 --> 02:59.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% haven't been framed. They're almost as if you obtained them the day they were issued 02:59.233 --> 03:04.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% in the '60s. At auction today, the set of six I would estimate at $1,000 to $1,500, 03:06.500 --> 03:09.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and the set of ten would reach $2,000 to $3,000 at auction. 03:09.633 --> 03:10.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Awesome, awesome. 03:10.633 --> 03:11.633 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% APPRAISER: Yeah. 03:11.633 --> 03:12.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GUEST: That's good to know.