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Eldzier Cortor

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Eldzier Cortor (January 10, 1916 – November 26, 2015) daa nyela African-American artist ni printmaker.

Cortor nyela bini daa doɣi so Richmond, Virginia,[1][2] Ka o laamba daa nye John ni Ophelia Cortor.[3] O daŋ maa daa nyela ban yi n labi Chicago, saha sheli o ni daa daa nye yuuni, ka daa di kplalim ni maani, ka Cortor daa chŋ Englewood High School. O daŋ maa daa pahila Great Migration sheli din daa niŋ America la, ka gbansabila ban gabi gbanpiela zuliya daa nye ban yi tiŋ maa South labi Industrial North.[4] O karimbitaba ban gba daa be Englewood n daa nye: Charles Wilbert White ni Margaret Burroughs.[5] Cortor mini Gus Nall daa lahi chaŋ Art Institute of Chicago, ka daa ti deegi bi degree shahira gbaŋ yuuni 1936.[6] O ni daa be Art Institute, o daa bohim anfooni ni bombu kpanjori sheŋa din kuli beni maa vienyela ka o kore daa kpe paintibu ni.[7]

O ni daa zoora, o daa nyela ŋun yu Chicago Defender din daa nye lahibali kpanjoɣu din lahabaya daa paɣiri ka wuhiri gbansabila ban gabi gbanpiela zuliya tuma la karimbu.[8] O daa lahi nyela gban piela lahabaya ni paɣi so pam, hali gba ka bi daa ti zaŋ o n pahi Chicago Tribune yuuni 1939 dini daa kuli niŋ ka o mali nuu timbu South Side Community Art Center la ni.[9] Lala ŋo daa nyela din nyam o ni pam, ka o daa ti pa tumdi o tuma ka di jendi gbansabila ban gabi gbanpiela zuliya paɣibu, bi kpaŋmaŋa ni yelviela.

Yuuni 1940 o daa nyela ŋun mini Works Progress Administration (WPA) tum tuma,[10] ka o daa bom Depression-era Bronzeville yaɣi sheŋa. Yuuni 1949,o daa chaŋ nti bo baŋsim Jamaica, Cuba, ni Haiti ka di nyela Guggenheim Fellowship, ni ka o daa be[11] ka daa wuhi karimbihi Centre d'Art din be Port-au-Prince yuuni 1949 -1951.

Yuuni 1944 ni 1945, o daa nyela ŋun di Julius Rosenwald Foundation Fellowships n pa taba , din daa soŋ so ka o go n chaŋ Sea Islands . Gullah niribi daa nyela ban be lala Islands ŋo ni, ka o daa mali baɣa zaŋ chaŋ lala yaɣili maa dama bi kali ni bi taɣaada daa nyela gbanpiela kali ni na bi gabi sheli ni. O daa nyela ŋun niŋ yuma ayi nimaani ka daa kuli zaŋ o maŋ n gabi bi ni.

Eldzier Cortor daa nyela ŋun kani silimin goli November 26, 2015, saha sheli o ni daa nye yuun pihiwoinaawoi, ni chiri pia[1]

Exhibitions and collections

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Cortor daa nyela ŋun zaŋ o tuma n wuhi salo yuuni 1938 "An Exhibition in Defense of Peace and Democracy", bin sheli Chicago Artists' Group ni daa ku ariziki niŋ.[12]

  • Bertha A. Florsheim award Art Institute Chicago, 1945; William H. Bartels kpaŋmaŋ pini, 1946, Carnegie Institute kpaŋmaŋ pini, 1947; Julius Rosenwald fellow, Chicago, 1945–47; John Simon Guggenheim fellow, New York City, 1949–50.[13]
  1. 1 2 Eldzier Cortor, Painter of Scenes From African-American Social Life, Dies at 99. The New York Times (28 November 2015).
  2. Eldzier Cortor papers, circa 1930s-2009, bulk, 1972-2009.
  3. 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.
  4. Carbone, Terry (June 26, 2016). Eldzier Cortor..
  5. Stacy I. Morgan, Rethinking social realism: African American art and literature, 1930-1953, University of Georgia Press, 2004, p. 50.
  6. 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.
  7. KELLY, SARAH E. (2009). "The Room No. VI". Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 35 (2): 18–93. ISSN 0069-3235.
  8. "Black Spirit": Works on Paper by Eldzier Cortor; essay by Matt Backer.
  9. Kate, Marshall Dole. "ELDZIER CORTOR: 1916-2015: ARTIST KNOWN FOR STUDY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURES." Chicago Tribune, Dec 09, 2015.
  10. Anderson Delano Macklin, A Biographical History of African-American Artists, A-Z, Edwin Mellen Press, 2001, p. 29.
  11. "Nineteen Young Americans", Life Magazine, March 20, 1950.
  12. Stacy I. Morgan, Rethinking social realism: African American art and literature, 1930-1953, University of Georgia Press, 2004, . .
  13. Marquis Who’s Who. “Profile Detail-Eldzier Cortor,” New Province, NJ. accessed November, 2021 http://search.marquiswhoswho.com/profile/300000110490