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Portrait of a Girl

Name: Portrait of a Girl
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 44278

Ernest Crichlow

$75,000

American (1914–2005)

Date: 1954
Oil on Board, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 19.5 in. x 15.5 in. (49.53 cm x 39.37 cm)
Frame Size: 23 x 18 inches

$75,000

Framed

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about Portrait of a Girl

Ernest Crichlow, American (1914 - 2005) - Portrait of a Girl.

Year: 1954, Medium: Oil on Board, signed and dated l.r., Size: 19.5 in. x 15.5 in. (49.53 cm x 39.37 cm), Frame Size: 23 x 18 inches, Description: Ernest Crichlow's poignant portrait of a young African American girl is emblematic of the artist's Social Realist work focusing on the lives of African Americans in the United States prior to the Civil Rights Movement.

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About The Artist: Ernest Crichlow

Ernest Crichlow first attained national distinction in the ’thirties and has come to be considered one of the important figures to have emerged from that generation of African American artists. He was born in Brooklyn on June 19, 1914. He was the second of nine children born to immigrants from Barbados, and the immigrant experience was often a subject in his art. After high school he studied commercial art and later studied fine art at New...

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About The Medium: Oil

Process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. Commonly used drying oils include linseed oil, poppy seed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil.

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