 In this respect it was a great success, and White himself acknowledged this as he learned that a group of workers in Alabama combined their savings to buy a portfolio and shared the pictures among themselves.In 1956, due to continued breathing problems (perhaps arsing from the earlier case of TB) White was persuaded to move to Los Angeles for its drier more mild climate.From 1965 to his death in 1979, White taught at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.