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Eldzier Cortor

CTL-P-0146 · Person

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Chicago-based painter

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Chicago-based painter

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Eldzier Cortor (1916-2015), painter and printmaker who spent his professional career in Chicago and New York; born in Richmond, Virginia; his family moved to Chicago in 1917 (Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Eldzier Cortor papers).

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