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How did Elizabeth Catlett make her prints?
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How Elizabeth Catlett made her prints over the course of her career varies. She is most famous for her linoleum cut prints, which she learned to produce while studying at the Taller de Gráfica Popular in Mexico City, Mexico. It was this method that Catlett employed when creating 1952's Sharecropper, one of Catlett's most enduring images. She also created woodcut prints, screenprints and lithographic prints. On 1stDibs, explore a range of Elizabeth Catlett art.
1stDibs ExpertFebruary 13, 2024
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NEW GENERATION Signed Lithograph, Black Father Holding Son, Family Portrait
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
NEW GENERATION is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 10% acid free, by the renowned African American woman a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BREAD (Derecho Alimentarse) Signed Linocut, Mexican Girl with Braided Hair
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
BREAD (Derecho Alimentarse) The Right To Eat, created by the African-American woman printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett.
BREAD portrays a realistic linoleum cut portrait of a...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Linocut
VENDEDORA Signed Lithograph, Portrait Seated Young Girl, Mexican Fruit Seller
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
VENDEDORA, a limited edition lithograph by the renowned American-born Mexican sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett(b.1915–2012) depicts a sensitive black and white portrait of a...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
MAN Signed Woodcut Print, Trial Proof, Black Ink on White Paper, 2003
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
MAN is an original woodcut print by the renowned American and Mexican woman printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett. Hand printed on white Rives BFK printmaking paper, 100% acid f...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Young Douglass Signed Linocut Print, Contemporary Portrait, 2004"
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
YOUNG DOUGLASS is a hand pulled, original limited edition relief print created using linoleum cut printmaking techniques on white archival Somerset White paper, 100% acid free. Hand signed in pencil by Elizabeth Catlett on the lower margin, embossed with printer's chop mark on lower left, print documentation provided.
YOUNG DOUGLASS is an impactful graphic statement by the renowned African-American and Mexican woman sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett, created as a tribute to Frederick Douglass, the most distinguished black American human rights leader of the 19th century. Strong impression printed in rich black ink on white wove paper, a powerful portrait of Douglass as a young man, with his distinct facial features, thick black hair, well-dressed in a formal high collar shirt...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Linocut
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NEGRO ES BELLO II Signed Lithograph, Black Is Beautiful, Black Power Movement
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
NEGRO ES BELLO II is an original limited edition lithograph created by the African-American woman printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett using hand printmaking techniques on arch...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
