BROOKLYN, N.Y.-Artist and illustrator Ernest Crichlow, 91, died. Ernest Crichlow was born on June 19, 1914, in Brooklyn. His parents were immigrants from Barbados. He attended the School of Commercial Illustrating and Advertising Art in the Flatiron Building in Manhattan. He graduated during the Depression and then worked for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project as a muralist and teacher. He portrayed Depression-era social justice themes. He exhibited in a black artists show together with Bearden, Lewis and Jacob Lawrence, among others in 1941 at a Downtown Gallery in Manhattan.

Ernest Crichlow once said, “I felt that this was a statement of the black woman speaking out and crying out sometimes and who really represents what's done to the whole black pride or the black image or whatever you want to call it. I see her fighting it off, and I see her strong while she's fighting it off. She doesn't seem like a weakling.”