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Eldzier Cortor: A Dialogue Between Friends

The Black Chicago Renaissance (1930s–1950s) was a chorus of voices—painters, printmakers, writers, poets, and playwrights—each weaving stories of Black life with brushstrokes and verse. Eldzier Cortor stood among them, his art in conversation with the imagery of Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, and Charles White, as well as the prose of Margaret Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks.
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