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Elizabeth Catlett
Links Together, 1996
lithograph on wove Arches paper
image: 57.3 x 47 cm (22 9/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
sheet: 74.4 x 58.3 cm (29 5/16 x 22 15/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of Art Information Volunteers in Honor of Dianne Stephens
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
My right is a future of equality with other Americans, 1946–1947
Linoleum cut printed in green and black
image: 22.5 x 15.1 cm (8 7/8 x 5 15/16 in.)
sheet: 27.3 x 20.6 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchased as the gift of Jeffrey A. Legum, Baltimore; BMA 2013.5
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Sharecropper (male), 1945
linocut
image: 10.8 x 14.6 cm (4 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.)
sheet: 24.1 x 31.1 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.)
framed: 30.5 x 38.1 x 5.1 cm (12 x 15 x 2 in.)
Williams College Museum of Art, Museum purchase, Kathryn Hurd Fund
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
I am the Negro Woman, 1947
linocut on paper
image: 14 x 12.7 cm (5 1/2 x 5 in.)
framed: 53.67 x 43.3 x 3.3 cm (21 1/8 x 17 1/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter 2011.1.172
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Mother and Child, 1956
terracotta
overall: 28.58 x 17.78 x 17.78 cm (11 1/4 x 7 x 7 in.)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, The Modern Women's Fund, and Dr. Alfred Gold (by exchange), 219.2011
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Gossip, 2005
color digital and photo-lithograph on wove paper
image: 37.47 x 45.72 cm (14 3/4 x 18 in.)
sheet: 59.69 x 60.96 cm (23 1/2 x 24 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Red Cross Woman (Nurse), c. 1944
gouache on paper
sheet: 52.1 x 50.8 cm (20 1/2 x 20 in.)
framed: 75.9 x 73.7 cm (29 7/8 x 29 in.)
From the Hampton University Museum Collection, Hampton, VA
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Firmas para la Paz, 1952
linocut
image: 31.2 x 42 cm (12 5/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
sheet: 48.5 x 64 cm (19 1/8 x 25 3/16 in.)
Peter Schneider and Susan DeJarnatt
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Sharecropper, 1946
oil on canvas
canvas: 100.3 x 57.2 cm (39 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)
framed: 115.6 x 72.4 x 7.6 cm (45 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 3 in.)
Collection of John and Hortense Russell
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photocredit: Wes Magyar

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Elizabeth Catlett
There is A Woman In Every Color, 1975
woocut/linocut
sheet: 55.9 x 76.2 cm (22 x 30 in.)
framed: 77.5 x 91.4 cm (30 1/2 x 36 in.)
From the Hampton University Museum Collection, Hampton, VA
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Red Leaves, 1978
lithograph
sheet: 57.15 x 47.63 cm (22 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.)
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Museum purchase, 2006.59
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Harlem Woman, 1992
color lithograph with fabric collage
sheet: 71.1 x 53.3 cm (28 x 21 in.)
framed: 76.2 x 55.9 cm (30 x 22 in.)
Gabriel Tenabe and Monilola Tenabe
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Black Woman Speaks, 1970
Spanish cedar
overall: 39.4 x 19.1 x 38.7 cm (15 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.)
Mrs. Thelma Driskell
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photocredit: Gregory R. Staley

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Elizabeth Catlett
Negro es Bello (Black is Beautiful), 1969/1970
color lithograph on wove paper (first version)
image: 69.9 x 53.2 cm (27 1/2 x 20 15/16 in.)
sheet: 75.8 x 59.8 cm (29 13/16 x 23 9/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Homage to My Young Black Sisters, 1968
red cedar
overall (without pedestal): 181.6 x 33 x 31.8 cm (71 1/2 x 13 x 12 1/2 in.)
pedestal: 57.8 x 58.4 x 58.4 cm (22 3/4 x 23 x 23 in.)
Art Bridges
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Political Prisoner, 1971
polychromed cedar
overall: 177.8 x 50.8 x 35.56 cm (70 x 20 x 14 in.)
Art and Artifacts Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Roots, 1981
serigraph, 14/40
sheet: 35.6 x 50.2 cm (14 x 19 3/4 in.)
framed: 71.1 x 83.8 cm (28 x 33 in.)
From the Hampton University Museum Collection, Hampton, VA
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Indian Woman, 1973
black marble
overall: 22.9 x 15.2 x 17.8 cm (9 x 6 x 7 in.)
Courtesy of Laura and Richard Parsons
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photocredit: Roz Akin, New York

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Elizabeth Catlett
Woman with Oranges, 1958
linocut
framed: 53.34 x 43.18 cm (21 x 17 in.)
From the Hampton University Museum Collection, Hampton, VA
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Malcolm X Speaks for Us, 1969
linoleum cut [ed.40]
image: 88.4 x 69.1 cm (34 13/16 x 27 3/16 in.)
sheet: 104.9 x 77.9 cm (41 5/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist, 1988
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Angela Libre, 1972
lithograph in color on silver foil
sheet: 55.9 x 64.8 cm (22 x 25 1/2 in.)
framed: 73.7 x 80.7 cm (29 x 31 3/4 in.)
Private Collection
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photocredit: Neil Boyd Photography

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Elizabeth Catlett
Black Unity, 1968
cedar
overall: 53.3 x 31.8 x 58.4 cm (21 x 12 1/2 x 23 in.)
pedestal: 94.6 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm (37 1/4 x 30 x 30 in.)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.11
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett
Survivor, 1983
linocut on heavy wove paper
sheet: 28.58 x 25.4 cm (11 1/4 x 10 in.)
image: 23.81 x 18.89 cm (9 3/8 x 7 7/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in Honor of Mary Lee Corlett
© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist

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