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Eldzier Cortor
Artist
born Richmond, VA 1916-died Seaford, NY 2015
- Born
- Richmond, Virginia, United States
- Died
- Seaford, New York, United States
- Active in
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Biography
A painter and master printmaker best known for his celebratory depictions of the African American woman, Eldzier Cortor was born in Richmond, Virginia, and raised in Chicago. Cortor went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in the 1930s worked as an easel painter for the Works Project Administration (WPA), depicting the lives of African Americans in Chicago's South Side.
During this time, he helped establish the SouthSide Community Art Center.
In the 1940s, two fellowships from the Rosenwald Foundation allowed Cortor to study the Gullah community on the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, and to paint its African American inhabitants. Cortor found ins