Eldzier Cortor, Roof Tops on Wabash, oil

Eldzier Cortor (American, b.1916), "Roof Tops on Wabash", c. 1938; oil/canvas, 30" x 24", signed; signed again and titled on stretcher; original white-washed frame. Highly important African American painter and printmaker. He received the Rosenwald Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship which allowed him to travel to Haiti where he taught at the Centre d'Art

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