Grandpa and the Library: How Charles White Learned to Paint

$19.95 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Grandpa and the Library: How Charles White Learned to Paint was 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.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…