Eldzier Cortor

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name = Eldzier Cortor


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birth_date = birth date and age|1916|1|10
birth_place = Tidewater, Virginia, United States
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occupation = Artist and printmaker
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Eldzier Cortor (born January 10, 1916) is an African-American artist and printmaker, born in Tidewater, Virginia, to John and Ophelia Cortor. His family moved to Chicago when Cortor was about a year old, eventually settling in that city's South Side, where Cortor attended Englewood High School. Forced to drop out of high school to work, he took evening drawing classes at Chicago's famed Art Institute. In 1940, he worked with the Works Progress Administration (WPA), where he drew scenes of Depression-era Bronzeville, a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. In 1949, Cortor studied in Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and taught at the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince from 1949-1951.

Cortor chose to make African-American women his dominant theme, one of the first African-American artists to do so, explaining, " [t] he Black woman represents the Black race. She is the Black Spirit; she conveys a feeling of eternity and a continuance of life."

External links

Articles
* [http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2085/Eldzier_Cortor_a_gifted_artist Eldzier Cortor's Listing from the African-American Registry]
* [http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/6aa/6aa260.htm "Black Spirit": Works on Paper by Eldzier Cortor]
* [http://www.askart.com/askart/c/eldzier_cortor/eldzier_cortor.aspx Listing from Ask Art]
* [http://negroartist.com/negro%20artist/eldzier%20cortor/index.htm Entry from negroartist.com]

Paintings Online
* [http://www.founders.howard.edu/hucollection/CortorEldzierAdjustment.jpgAdjustment]
* [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/blackburn/images/bla10-02417r.jpgCarnival]
* [http://www.artgallery.umd.edu/driskell/images/artwork/sec4/cort_e_01.jpgCuban Souvenir]
* [http://www.tfaoi.com/cm/3cm/3cm798.jpgDance Composition No. 31]
* [http://www.billhodgesgallery.com/photo/cortor/head_of_young_woman_medium.jpgHead of Young Woman]
* [http://www.uwrf.edu/~rw66/minority/minam/afr/AAA/fig28.jpgMan with a Sickle]
* [http://eev.liu.edu/eevillage/HeckscherWOE/7.jpgThe Night Letter]
* [http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/Sept2005/salecatalog/images/0683.jpgRooftops on Wabash]
* [http://www.uwrf.edu/~rw66/minority/minam/afr/oxford/73.jpgRoom No. 5]
* [http://americanart.si.edu/images/1980/1980.137.19_1b.jpgSouthern Gate]
* [http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/cassidy/cassidy9-16-9.asp Southern Landscape]
* [http://newsinfo.iu.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/1334.jpgUntitled]