The African American painter, printmaker, and teacher Charles Wilbert White attended The Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York City and later taught at the George Washington Carver School in New York (1943-1945) and was artist-in-residence at Howard University in Washington, DC, in 1945. White's work is included in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Newark Museum, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.