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Eldzier Cortor
Eldzier Cortor (January 10, 1916 – November 26, 2015) was an African-American artist and printmaker. His work typically features elongated nude figures in intimate settings,〔Jack Salzman, Cornel West, ''Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history, Volume 2'', Macmillan Library Reference, 1996, p. 663.〕 influenced by both traditional African art and European surrealism.
==Life and career==
Cortor was born in Richmond, Virginia,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/eldzier-cortor-papers-7524/more#biohist )〕 to John and Ophelia Cortor.〔Patricia Hills, Melissa Renn, ''Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-century African American art from the George and Joyce Wein collection'', Boston University Art Gallery, 2005, p. 37.〕 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. Fellow students at Englewood included the African-American artists Charles Wilbert White and Margaret Burroughs.〔Stacy I. Morgan, ''Rethinking social realism: African American art and literature, 1930-1953'', University of Georgia Press, 2004, p. 50.〕 Cortor attended the Art Institute of Chicago, gaining a degree in 1936.〔David C. Driskell et al, ''The Other Side of Color: African American art in the collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr'', Pomegranate, 2001, p. 180.〕 In 1940 he worked with the Works Progress Administration (WPA),〔Anderson Delano Macklin, ''A biographical history of African-American artists, A-Z'', Edwin Mellen Press, 2001, p. 29.〕 where he drew scenes of Depression-era Bronzeville, a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. In 1949, he studied in Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti on a Guggenheim Fellowship,〔"Nineteen Young Americans", ''Life Magazine'', March 20, 1950.〕 and taught at the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince from 1949 to 1951.
Cortor died on November 26, 2015, at the age of 99.
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