Ernest Crichlow
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Born | Social Realism | June 19, 1914
Patron(s) | Augusta Savage |
Ernest Crichlow (June 19, 1914 โ November 10, 2005) was an American
Early life and career
Ernest Crichlow was born in
Career
His first exhibition was in 1938 in the
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
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. In 1958, he founded the Brooklyn's Fulton Art Fair.[3] He founded the Cinque Gallery located in New York City in 1969 with Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden to showcase art by African American artists. Crichlow taught art at the City College of New York, the State University of New York at New Paltz, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the Art Students League.[1][4]
Ernest Crichlow was a member of an African American artist collective by the name of Spiral, which was formed in 1963 and disassembled in 1966.[5] The group's mission was to contribute to the civil rights movement while maintaining their identities as individuals and artists. Spiral organized one art exhibition and is notable for their thought-provoking discussions on the African American experience, African American image, and other topics surrounding civil rights and social justice.[6]
At the time of his passing on November 10, 2005, he was a resident of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Crichlow's cause of death was heart failure.[3]
References
- ^ "Ernest Crichlow - Illustration History". www.illustrationhistory.org. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
- ^ "Oral history interview with Ernest Crichlow, 1968 July 20". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
- ^ a b c Potts, Monica. "Ernest Crichlow, 91, Lyrical Painter, Dies", The New York Times, November 14, 2005. Accessed September 2, 2018. "Ernest Crichlow, an influential Harlem Renaissance painter whose depictions of African-Americans reflected social injustices and shifting social realities through much of the 20th century, died on Thursday at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn. He was 91 and lived in Fort Greene, Brooklyn."
- ^ ""Famed black artist Ernest Crichlow; Had role in Harlem Renaissance."". Record (Bergen Co, NJ). pp. pL07.
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- ^ ARTnews, The Editors of (2015-12-12). "'Why Spiral?': Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, and Others on the 'Contradictions Facing Them in Modern America,' in 1966". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
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Further reading
- Article on Ernest Crichlow
- "Ernest Crichlow." St. James Guide to Black Artists St. James Press, 1997. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005.
- Newsday obituary November 12, 2005
- Skylight Gallery Archives: Ernest Crichlow