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Charles White Was a Giant, Even Among the Heroes He Painted

“Black Pope (Sandwich Board Man)” from 1973 by Charles White, in the exhibition "Charles White: A Retrospective" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Oct. 5, 2018. At the Museum of Modern Art, the first full-scale look at White’s career in about three decades traces a broad pattern of 20th-century African-American life. (Agaton Strom/The New York Times)