Saturday, September 12, 2020

Elizabeth Catlett. Joel Elgin Athraigh Printmaking Studio

 

Please enjoy this short exhibition of prints and drawings by Elizabeth Catlett.

 

Elizabeth Catlett was born in 1915, in Washington, D.C. She was an advocate for social change in the U.S. and Mexico until she passed away in 2012 at age 96. Her prints are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, in New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

 

 

 


1. Elizabeth Catlett

"Fiesta"

color screenprint

 

 


 

2. Elizabeth Catlett

I have given the world my songs,

 from "I am the Negro Woman" series, 1946-1947

Linocut


 


3. Elizabeth Catlett

Prissy. 1979

Lithograph on cream wove paper

 

 


 

4.Elizabeth Catlett

Untitled (Freedom). 1998

From the Freedom or Slavery: The Paul Robeson Portfolio

Color lithograph on cream wove paper

 

 

 


5.Elizabeth Catlett

Young Woman.

Drawing

 

 


 

6.Elizabeth Catlett

Singing Their Songs 1992

Lithograph on paper

 

 


7.Elizabeth Catlett

Bread (Derecho Alimentarse). 1952.

Linoleum cut on wove paper,

 

 

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