Southern Theme (The Room) No. III
Purchase, Bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn, by exchange, Rogers Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 2025
Catalogue
- Year
- 1947
- Medium
- Oil and gesso on panel
- Dimensions
- 15 × 28 in. (38.1 × 71.1 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Eldzier Cortor
Artist
Painting
Eldzier Cortor was an American painter and printmaker whose work emerged from the postwar African American artistic tradition. Working primarily in oil and etching, he developed a distinctive approach to figuration that combined modernist spatial flattening with intimate domestic and social scenes. His technical mastery of printmaking and careful compositional control established him as a significant figure in mid-twentieth-century American art.
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- Eldzier Cortor
- Year
- 1947
- Medium
- Oil and gesso on panel
- Dimensions
- 15 × 28 in. (38.1 × 71.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1947-012206
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified