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ERNEST CRICHLOW (1914 - 2005) One Way.
Oil on linen canvas, 1967. 914x610 mm; 36x24 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private New York collection.
This poignant painting of a young girl in contrast with her urban environs is a large mid-career work by Ernest Crichlow. Since his beginnings in the WPA, he has depicted the experiences of African Americans through the subjects of women and children. One Way is part of a group of mid-to-late 1960s paintings, including Waiting, 1965, and White Fence, 1967, in which Crichlow developed his social realism to illuminate the economic and social divisions of the Civil Rights era.
