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          Eldzier Cortor

          American painter (1916– 2015)

          Eldzier Cortor (January 10, 1916 – November 26, 2015) was an African-American artist and printmaker.

          His work typically features elongated nude figures in intimate settings,[1] influenced by both traditional African art and Europeansurrealism.[2][3] Cortor is known for his style of realism that makes accurate depictions of poor, Black living conditions look fantastic as he distorts perspective.[4]

          Early life and education

          Cortor was born in Richmond, Virginia,[5][6] to John and Ophelia Cortor.[7] His family moved to Chicago when Cortor was about a year old, eventually settling in that city's South Side, where Cortor attended Englewood High School.

          His family was a part of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the industrial North.[8] Fellow students at Englewood included the African-American artists Charles Wilbert White and Marg