Portrait of a Girl

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...