Description
Lady with Blue Chair, 2007
Artist: Eldzier Cortor
Oil on canvas, 11 x 18 inches
Signed lower right
Eldzier Cortor was a 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.
