- unitid
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{"value"=>"186139", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22905421", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Cortor 2021", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"2000", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"2000"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Eldzier Cortor moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"5 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Eldzier Cortor (1916-2015) was an African American painter and master printmaker. The collection consists of five video recordings of an interview with Cortor on June 26, 2000 at Kenkeleba House, an art gallery in New York City."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Cortor, Eldzier, 1916-2015", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Eldzer Cortor (1916-2015) was an African American painter and master printmaker. Cortor was born in Richmond, Virgina, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago, earning a degree in 1936. In 1940, he worked with the Works Project Administration (WPA) as a painter, depicting the lives of African Americans in Chicago's South Side. During this time, he helped establish the South Side Community Art Center, the first Black art museum in the United States.</p> <p>In 1944 and 1945, Cortor earned two fellowships from the Rosenwald Foundation that allowed him to study the Gullah community on the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, and to paint its African American inhabitants. In 1949, supported with a Guggenheim fellowship, he studied in Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti, as well as taught at the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince from 1949 to 1951. Cortor's works are in major museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian American Art museum.</p> <p>He died in 2015 at ninety-nine years old.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Eldzier Cortor moving image collection consists of one interview comprising five video recordings. They are arranged in sequence by parts. The interviewer is Corinne Jennings, the owner of Kenkeleba House. Founded in 1974, Kenkeleba House is an art gallery dedicated to celebrating and presenting the visual aesthetic and cultural legacy of African American artists and other artists of color that have been historically overlooked by the art world establishment and cultural mainstream.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Michael Cortor, 2021.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Art and Artifacts Division for the artworks.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Anika Paris</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Ornella U. Baganizi</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Item titles and extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Ornella U. Baganizi.", "date"=>"2026-05-01"}
- date_start
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2000
- keydate
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2000
- date_end
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2000
- date_inclusive_start
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2000
- date_inclusive_end
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2000
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Eldzier Cortor moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}