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Welcome to the new Fulton Art Fair Legacy Project where the organization will paying hommage to its founding leaders, member artists, community leaders and supporters.

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Ernest Crichlow

(June 19, 1914 – November 10, 2005)

Crichlow was an African American social realist artist known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance. Crichlow was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1914 to Caribbean immigrants.His first exhibition was in 1938 in the Harlem Community Center in Harlem, New York. One of his best known works, the lithograph Lovers III shows a young black woman being harassed in her bedroom by a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Crichlow’s work was exhibited in the 1939 New York World’s Fair and in the Library of Congress the following year.

Over the next few decades, his work was regularly shown in leading US art galleries especially in the northeast although he held two exhibitions in Atlanta University in the 1940s. He founded the Cinque Gallery in 1969 with Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden as well as teaching art at New York University and the Art Students League.
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ONLINE RESOURCES

Harlem Renaissance Painter Ernest Crichlow

All Things Considered, November 14, 2005 · Harlem Renaissance painter Ernest Crichlow died in New York at the age of 91. His work depicted the shifting experiences of African-Americans through much of the 20th century. Allison Keyes has a remembrance.

Adam Engel: An Interview with Ernest Crichlow

from Counterpunch, the online political newsletter

Ernest Crichlow: Artist, Teacher, Brooklyn’s Native Son

from the Skylight Gallery, the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation

A Profile of the Artist

from Avisca Fine Arts, New York

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