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Which famous artist encouraged Catlett to create art about what she knew best?
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The famous artist who encouraged Catlett to create art about what she knew best was Grant Wood. As she later told an interviewer, “The thing that I knew the most about was Black women, because I am one, and I lived with them all my life, so that’s what I started working with.”
In 1976, Elizabeth Catlett received a lifetime achievement award from the International Sculpture Center. Her work is in the collections of museums worldwide, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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In 1976, Elizabeth Catlett received a lifetime achievement award from the International Sculpture Center. Her work is in the collections of museums worldwide, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Shop a selection of Elizabeth Catlett art on 1stDibs.
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Blues, signed/N limited edition lithograph, famed African American artist Framed
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Catlett
Blues, 1983
Color offset lithograph and lithograph on cream wove paper
Signed, titled, dated and numbered (126/130) in graphite pencil on the front
Printed and publ...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
LINKS TOGETHER Original Lithograph 1996 Commemorative Art Poster, Black Women
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
LINKS TOGETHER is a very unique, and rarely seen original fine art lithograph poster printed in five colors using traditional hand lithography techniques (not a photo reproduction or...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE Signed Lithograph, Black Lawyers Civil Rights Social Justice
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
THE DOOR OF JUSTICE is an original, hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor bes...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE Vintage Art Poster 1992, Science Technology Education
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012)
BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE
THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Specially commissioned art poster designed in 1992 by Elizabeth Catlett, printed in 4-color of...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset
YOUNG DOUGLASS Signed Linocut, Black Portrait Head African American Civil Rights
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. Pencil signed 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 coiffured hair, dressed in a formal high collar shirt...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Linocut
KEISHA M. Hand Drawn Lithograph, Young Black Female Portrait, Afro Hairstyle
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
KEISHA M. is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the renowned African-American woman sculptor, printmaker and painter Elizabeth Catlett (191...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
