Elizabeth Catlett: Print Retrospective, Jamaica Arts Center, New York, 16 September – 25 October 1989 Elizabeth Catlett: Works on Paper , 1944–92, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, 1993 The Art of Elizabeth Catlett , Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, 16 January 2015 – 5 April 2015 Her father died before she was born and her mother held several jobs to raise three children. The Limited Editions Club, New York. Elizabeth Catlett. Margaret Walker. Their art transcended turmoil of the times and became a beacon of light and empowerment for people globally. 1992.
“I have always wanted my art to service my people—to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential,” Elizabeth Catlett has said.

Though she has found warm acceptance in her adopted country, her African-American consciousness has inspired her to continue to produce sculptures and prints that deal with the struggles of African Americans. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to archives@moma.org. Sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett used her art to advocate for social change in both the U.S. and her adopted country of Mexico for almost three-quarters of a century. .In the Fields") [possibly this edition]. Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora were two of the most prolific artists of the 20th century. . Elizabeth Catlett was a sculptor, painter, and printmaker well-known for producing politically charged black expressionistic sculptures and prints in the 1960s and the 1970s. Her work is represented in many collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, MOMA, NYC and MOMA, Mexico, the Library of Congress, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Narrator: David Breslin is the DeMartini Family Curator and Director of the collection. James Barbour: "The farthest back I have been able to trace with any certainty, is my great-grandfather, James Barbour, who came to this country from Scotland, in the latter half of the 17th Century. David Breslin: Elizabeth Catlett made this body of prints, I Am the Negro Woman, in 1947 at a workshop in Mexico City. Illustrated book with six lithographs. Catlett, a granddaughter of slaves, was born into a middle-class Washington family; her father was a professor of mathematics at Tuskegee Institute. Elizabeth Catlett is a female artist who has changed the face of feminist artwork by creating art that empowers women and speaks to critical social and political issues. Elizabeth Catlett, American-born Mexican sculptor and printmaker renowned for her intensely political art. Brought together by their passion to do so, they met in México … Celebrated for her prints and sculptures, Catlett employed formal devices that expressed her civic and social … 713.1996.1-6. Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) was an American and Mexican graphic artist and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience.

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