Description
Environment No. 5, 1969
Artist: Eldzier Cortor
25 x 34 1/2 inches
Color Intaglio and woodcut; Edition: 15/100, signed, titled and numbered
Major African-American artist active from Depression Era to present. Studied & showed at The Art Institute of Chicago with prizes won in 1945 & 1946. Awarded Rosenwald Grants in 1944 & 1945 and a Guggenheim in 1949. Cortor died on Thanksgiving Day, 2015, a little over one month before his 100th birthday.
