Ernest Crichlow was an American social realist artist known for his narrative paintings and illustrations from the Depression-era, which focused on social injustice and the realities faced by African Americans.
10 Facts About Ernest Crichlow
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Ernest Crichlow was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1914 to Barbadian immigrants.
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Ernest Crichlow studied art at the School of Commercial Illustrating and Advertising Art in New York and New York University.
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Ernest Crichlow started work as an artist in a studio sponsored by Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.
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Ernest Crichlow's work was exhibited in the 1939 New York World's Fair and in the Library of Congress the following year.
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Ernest Crichlow's 1967 painting White Fence showing a young white girl being separated by a fence from five black girls was the most notable from his later career along with a 25-panel mural at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn.
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Ernest Crichlow was well known as an illustrator for children's literature, providing art work for Two in a Team, Maria, Lift Every Voice and Magic Mirrors.
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Ernest Crichlow founded the Cinque Gallery located in New York City in 1969 with Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden to showcase art by African American artists.
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Ernest 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.
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Ernest Crichlow was a member of Spiral, an African American artist collective that was formed in 1963 and disassembled in 1966.