#eldziercortor

[bm-contemporary-art]

Jewels, Theme III, Eldzier Cortor, 1985, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Eldzier Cortor Size: 30 x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm) Medium: Mezzotint

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/210555

[aic-american]

Classical Study #41, Eldzier Cortor, 1979, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Gift of Eldzier Cortor in memory of Sophia Cortor Size: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/216561/

[moma-prints]

Compositional Study No. III from Impressions: Our World, Volume I, Eldzier Cortor, 1974, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Purchase Size: plate: 20 7/8 × 16" (53.1 × 40.6 cm); sheet: 30 × 22 1/16" (76.2 × 56.1 cm) Medium: Etching with embossing from a portfolio of seven etchings (five with aquatint, two with embossing)

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/172391

[bm-american-art]

Southern Landscape (Southern Flood), Eldzier Cortor, ca. 1944-1945, Brooklyn Museum: American Art

© Eldzier Cortor Size: 20 x 34 in. (50.8 x 86.4 cm) frame: 26 x 40 x 1 1/2 in. (66 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm) Medium: Tempera and gesso on board

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2732

[marciamattos]

#Repost @mfaboston (@get_repost) ・・・ Today is #Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. This Wednesday, we’re partnering with @epicentercom to celebrate creativity, community and freedom at our fifth annual Juneteenth event. Pictured: “Dance Composition No. 35.” (1970s) by #EldzierCortor.

[blackpostmodernart]

Eldzier Cortor, Untitled (Head of a Woman), 1960

[vmfaeducation]

Purchased just last year, this painting was done by an artist not quite as well-known as Aaron Douglas, but just as important nonetheless. Eldzier Cortor was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1916. At a very young age, his family (like many African American families at that time) left the Jim Crow south and moved up north, seeking better opportunities. Cortor’s family ended up in Chicago and it was there that he attended the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving his degree in 1936. He was also one of many artists employed by the WPA’s Federal Art Project under the New Deal. A painter and a printmaker, Cortor was best known for his elegant paintings of black (typically nude) women. Our painting, Southern Landscape, done in 1941, shows a beautiful and introspective black woman standing in the foreground. Behind her, the artist has depicted an imaginary South after the devastating floods of the 1930s. In the far distance, we see homes submerged half-way underwater. She leans against a brick wall that separates her from a cemetery, evidenced by a spattering of tombstones. As she stares off, she grasps onto her necklace, to which a cross (or crucifix) is attached. In her right hand she holds wild flowers. Beside her we see a basket, which we can assume contains objects that belong to her. Among the basket of possessions lies a small framed photograph of a young man in military uniform (which happens to be a self-portrait of the artist). For Eldzier Cortor, the black female figure represented strength, beauty, resilience, and the continuance of life. When you apply that concept to this work, we see an ideal beauty amidst tragedy and ruin and although there is a somber tone to this scene, the artist has given us a taste of hope. Our main character - the beautiful, black woman - is a source of strength. She is resilient. Perhaps she has survived the tragic floods that took so many lives and ruined so much property and was able to grab those few and precious objects that now sit beside her in that basket? Does the flower in her hand represent the dawn of a new day? #VMFA #arteducation #EldzierCortor #AmericanArt #AfricanAmericanArt #SouthernLandscape # (at VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)

[pomegranatecom]

Happy Birthday, Eldzier Cortor! 🎁⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #happybirthday #eldziercortor #blackart #blackartwork #blackartist #blackartists #blackarthistory #blackhistory #americanart #americanartist #africanamericanart #pomcom — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/37UVpGD

[trascapades]

❤✊🏽🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon #Artist #activist #educator #MargaretTaylorBurroughs, founder of Chicago's @dusablemuseum, is featured in @broadly. #Painting by @laurafreemanart. https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5yz4/margaret-taylor-burroughs-chicago-art-1940s From @broadly: "In the 1940s, Margaret Taylor Burroughs bolstered the careers of some of Chicago's most iconic artists by holding culture salons in her barn and later starting an African American museum in her home. The guests sat on the floor, sipping martinis or coffee and pondering society’s great problems until the wee hours of the morning, sometimes the next afternoon. Paint and artist tools lay strewn across the floor. #GwendolynBrooks, a decade before winning a #PulitzerPrize, would hang around, laughing and sharing secrets. At times, soon-to-be civil rights icon #PaulRobeson or celebrated #sculptor #ElizabethCatlett would swing by. The renowned #painter #EldzierCortor could sometimes be found there as well, alongside luminary poets like #MargaretWalker and #LangstonHughes. This was the scene throughout the 1940s at Burroughs’ old home in Bronzeville on the South Side of Chicago, as described in essays by Brooks and documented by various photographers. These cultural salons helped incubate the creative practices of current day artistic icons, and are one of the reasons that Bronzeville is now known as the birthplace of the Chicago Black Renaissance. And if Bronzeville was the birthplace of that cultural reawakening, then Burroughs—an artist, poet, and educator who eventually founded Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History—is one of the godmothers." Read the full story: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5yz4/margaret-taylor-burroughs-chicago-art-1940s #ArtsPatrons #CultureCreators #ChicagoBlackRenaissance #Bronzeville #CulturalSalons #BlackCreatives #BlackMuseums #BlackArtisticIcons #BlackArtists #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory365 #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon (at DuSable Museum of African American History)

[thehairhistorian]

Woman in an Interior, 1916, Eldzier Cortor ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #hairhistory #hairstyle #vintagehair #arthistory #thehairhistorian #EldzierCortor — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2pC1AOW

[jamieroxxartist]

Birthday Remembrances. Today, Jan 10, 1916 – #EldzierCortor, American painter (d. 2015) was born.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldzier_Cortor) *A key figure (and master Surrealist) of the Chicago Black Renaissance. **One of my Faves!

[bm-contemporary-art]

Dance II/Diptych, Eldzier Cortor, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Eldizier Cortor Size: 29 7/8 x 22 3/4 in. (75.9 x 57.8 cm) Medium: Mezzotint

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/210554

[aic-american]

Classical Study #41, Eldzier Cortor, 1979, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Gift of Eldzier Cortor in memory of Sophia Cortor Size: 55.9 × 40.6 cm (22 × 16 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/216561/

[marcopolorules]

“… ¿a quién le confiarás que amaste, odiaste,⠀ tuviste un día el tiempo entre tus brazos?… “⠀ ⠀ “… Who will you trust that you loved, hated,⠀ did you have the time in your arms one day?..."⠀ ⠀ Tomás Segovia⠀ & Eldzier Cortor (artist)⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #art #portraitart #portraitpainting #painting #oilpaint #oilpainting #oilonmasonite #oilpainter #oilpainters #oilpaints #contemporary #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #newcontemporary #modernart #modernpainting #artgallery #contemporaryartgallery #figurative #figurativeart #figurativepainting #figurativeoilpainting #figurativeportrait #undergroundart #artdaily #artgram #vagabondwho #marcopolorules #eldziercortor https://www.instagram.com/p/B36qzO3IoFY/?igshid=g5p3o1n2jwpr

[africandiasporaphd]

#Repost @theculturebazaar (@get_repost) ・・・ "#Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. This commemoration dates back to June 19, 1865, when news of the end of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation’s declaration “that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free” reached Galveston, Texas—nearly two-and-a-half years after Lincoln issued the proclamation. Today, this holiday is observed around the country with celebrations including parades, cook-outs, performances, community engagement, and more." ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are in the #Boston area, join the celebration on Wednesday, June 21st at the Museum of Fine Arts (@mfaboston) to view the collection of art by African American artists, focusing on the exhibition featuring two prominent artists in “Wilson/Cortor. (Pictured: “Dance Composition No. 35.” (1970s) by #EldzierCortor). Find out what's going on in your neighborhood to celebrate #culture, the education of our history and expression. #HappyJunetheenth #Junetheenth #TheFightContinues http://ift.tt/2tFMmW7 Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

[caille]

Thinking about Eldzier Cortor today.