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Nationality
  
African American

Role
  
Artist

Known for
  
Education
  

Movement
  
Social Realism

Period
  
Social realism

Name
  
Ernest Crichlow

Patrons
  
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Born
  
June 19, 1914 (
1914-06-19
)
Brooklyn, New York

Died
  
November 10, 2005, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States

CRICHLOW, Ernest. Oil on Board. "Waiting."


Ernest Crichlow (June 19, 1914 – November 10, 2005) was an African-American social realist artist.

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Early life and career

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Crichlow was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1914 to Caribbean immigrants. He studied art at the School of Commercial Illustrating and Advertising Art in New York and New York University. Crichlow started work as an artist in a studio sponsored by Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Augusta Savage was an early patron of his work, as was the case for many of the artists of the Harlem Renaissance.

Career

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His first exhibition was in 1938 in the Harlem Community Center in Harlem, New York. One of his best known works, the lithograph Lovers III shows a young black woman being harassed in her bedroom by a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Crichlow's work was exhibited in the 1939 New York World's Fair and in the Library of Congress the following year.

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Over the next few decades, his work was regularly shown in leading US art galleries especially in the northeast although he held two exhibitions in Atlanta University in the 1940s. By the end of his career, his work had been honored by President Carter. His 1967 painting White Fence showing a young white girl being separated by a fence from five black girls was the most notable from his later career along with a 25 panel mural at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn.

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Crichlow was also well known as an illustrator for children's literature providing art work for Two in a Team, Maria, Lift Every Voice and Magic Mirrors. He founded the Cinque Gallery in 1969 with Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden as well as teaching art at New York University and the Art Students League.


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References

Ernest Crichlow Wikipedia


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