Elizabeth CatlettPLAYMATES Signed Lithograph, For My People by Margaret Walker, Black Children, 1992
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PLAYMATES Signed Lithograph, For My People by Margaret Walker, Black Children
Located in Union City, NJ
PLAYMATES is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the highly acclaimed African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her depictions of the African-American experience. PLAYMATES portrays a colorful portrait of two black children playing; a young girl and boy artistically expressed featuring fabric scraps used for the girl's cobalt blue dress and for the boy's blue and white pin striped shirt creating a collage effect in this eye-catching composition by Elizabeth Catlett. Attractive color palette comprised of bright lemon yellow, cobalt blue, turquoise, warm red, warm brown, golden ochre, and black. From the FOR MY PEOPLE suite of prints, a set of 6 lithographs illustrating the well known 1942 poem by Margaret Walker. "For my playmates in the clay and dust and sand of Alabama backyards playing baptizing and preaching and doctor and jail and soldier and school and mama and cooking and playhouse and concert and store and hair and Miss Choomby and company;" stanza from the poem FOR MY PEOPLE by Margaret Walker...
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Lithograph







