A native Chicagoan and a graduate of the School of the Art Institute, Charles White made his reputation through a series of powerful paintings and murals that forcefully conveyed African-American history, as well as minority struggle in the 1930s and 1940s. A staunch Socialist, Harvest Talk was one of 6 drawings White produced for a portfolio distributed in the communist journal, Masses and Mainstream, and exhibited together in 1953... (http://arteverywhereus.org/Art-Gallery/id/9)