Cortor, Eldzier, 1916-2015

found: African American National Biography, accessed December 7, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cortor, Eldzier; painter, printmaker, muralist; born 10 January 1916 in Richmond, Virginia, United States; entered Englewood High School; took evening classes at the School of the Art Institute; studied at Columbia University and at the Pratt Graphic Art Center; was influenced by African art; was an easel painter for the Works Project Administration; in 1944 received a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship; painting of women earned him artistic acclaim; one of his best-known paintings Southern Gate is placed in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; won the annual prize at the Art Institute of Chicago; was awarded the Purchase Prize at the Carnegie Institute Annual Show; in 1949 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled to Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti)

found: New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 30, 2015(in obituary published Nov. 27: Eldzier Cortor; b. Jan. 10, 1916, Richmond, Va.; around 1950, moved to New York City's Lower East Side, where he lived for the rest of his life; d. Thursday [Nov. 26, 2015], Seaford, N.Y., aged 99; painter and printmaker perhaps best known for his elegant paintings of nude black women created when such works were seldom seen in the mainstream art world)