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Ernie Crichlow

Ernie (Ernest) Crichlow (1914 - 2005) was active/lived in New York.  Ernie Crichlow is known for African-American figure, political genre.

A Harlem-Renaissance painter focused on social injustices before the successes of the civil rights movement, Ernest Crichlow had his studio and home in Brooklyn, New York, his birthplace.  Many of his paintings became highly controversial such as Lovers (1938), which depicted a Ku Klux Klan member raping a black woman, and The Flag, a scene with an American flag behind a black woman on a cross.  He was criticized for focusing too much attention on serious African-American issues, but believed it was the expression that best represented him.  He said: "This is the thing that I feel most at home with".

Crichlow's parents were from Barbados, and he had eight brothers and sisters.  As a high-school student, he was influenced by Black-American sculptor Augusta Savage, who had a studio in Harlem, which was a gathering place for artists.  There Crichlow came to know leading black artists such as Norman Lewis, Charles Alston and Ro   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1877 characters.]  Artist bio

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