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1940's French Post Impressionist Portrait of Woman Red & Green Background
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

1940's Fashion Illustration - Stunning Woman In Light Blue Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

Portrait of Woman in Red Shawl - Nudes verso - British 1940's art oil painting
By Lionel Ellis
Located in London, GB
This lovely British portrait oil painting is by noted artist Lionel Ellis. Painted circa 1940, the
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1940s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

1940's Fashion Illustration - Chanel Styled Woman In Chic Black Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

1940's French Impressionist Portrait of Young Lady Self Portrait Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Woman by Marguerite Lacroux (French/ Swiss 1898-1972) dated 1948 signed oil on
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Woman', oil on board, by Anna Costa (circa 1960s). This is a beautiful
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1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Board, Oil

Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Woman', oil on board, by Anna Costa (circa 1960s). This is a beautifully
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1960s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

American Midwest Regional Portrait Oil Painting, Circle of Grant Wood, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Create a statement or focal piece for a room. This is a very stylized portrait of a woman dating to
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period - Midtown
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1940s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Darkness (portrait of a young woman)
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fletcher Martin (1904-1979). Darkness, 1940. Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches; 28.5 x 32.5 inches
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Mid 20th Century French Oil Portrait Woman Impressionist Sketch on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below oil painting on canvas
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Mid 20th Century Portrait of a Young Woman oil
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine shoulder length portrait of a young woman circa 1940's-1950's Continental School. A fine
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Post Impressionist Portrait of a Woman - British 40's art portrait oil painting
By Harry Rutherford
Located in London, GB
Rutherford. Painted circa 1940, the portrait is of a dark haired young woman in a fluffy grey wool coat and
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1940s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Modern Impressionist Portrait of Woman in Interior w/ Plant
Located in New York, NY
French-Canadian artist Joseph Frances Plaskett (1918-2014) Since the 1940s had over 65 exhibitions
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1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Canvas

Black and White Portrait of an Elderly Woman - Imogen Cunningham
By Imogen Cunningham
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a seated elderly woman by Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883). Presented in a new white
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1960s Photorealist Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

INTEGRACION Signed Lithograph, Abstract Portrait, Latin American Woman Artist
By Raquel Forner
Located in Union City, NJ
Raquel Forner (1902-1988) Argentine woman painter and printmaker born in Buenos Aires in 1902 and
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1980s Expressionist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Classical Female Head (woman portrait)
By Federico Castellon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
, 1938-39, 1940 (prize), 1941-42; Carnegie Inst., 1942; PAFA, 1943-53; Assoc. Am. Ar., 1946 (prize), 1952
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1950s Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite

Mid 20th Century Oil - Fashionable Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
An energetic portrait of a fashionable woman, likely dating to the late-1940s. Presented glazed in
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Wilda Leiner
By Cor de Gavere
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful portrait of a woman named Wilda Leiner, a pianist (1908-1994) by longtime Santa Cruz
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1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

CANDACE 1992 Tribute To African American Women, Black Woman Face Portrait
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
portrait head of a black woman with sculptural shaded face details bordered on the bottom by a row of five
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Portrait of Molly in Red Beret - British thirties Art Deco portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
a Post Impressionist seated portrait of a dark haired woman in a red beret holding red gloves. The
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

GLORY Signed Linocut, Poetic Female Portrait, Black Woman, White Line Drawing
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
portrait expressed as a white line drawing depicting a upright postured black woman standing in profile
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Beautiful Woman watercolor painting by Robert Philipp
By Robert Philipp
Located in Surfside, FL
A sensitive portrait beautifully rendered in watercolor and gouache. Mid century. I am guessing
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1940s Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Moise Kisling - Woman - Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Moise Kisling - Woman Etching Edition of 130 Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Moïse Kisling, born Mojżesz
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1970s Modern Portrait Prints

'Breton Woman', Paris Salon, Royal Danish Academy, Impressionist oil, Brittany
By Julius Paulsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'Jul. Paulsen' for Julius Paulsen (Danish, 1860-1940) and dated 1919. A
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1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman and rose window oil on canvas painting surrealist
By Ramon Llovet Miserol
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ramón Llovet (1917-1987) - Woman and rose window - Oil on canvas Canvas measures 61x50 cm
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Couple of man and woman oil on canvas painting
By Ramon Llovet Miserol
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
autumn salons (October Hall) of the 1940s and 1950s. He became a member of the FAD and actively
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of a woman, 1929, red chalk on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Erich HERMES (1881-1971) Portrait of a Woman, 1929 Sanguine on paper Signed "E. Hermès" and dated
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1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Portrait of a Woman, Framed Pastel Drawing by Peter Driben
By Peter Driben
Located in Long Island City, NY
of World War II until the great baby boom of the 1950s. This portrait of a woman is a wonderful look
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

"Modernist Portrait" Mid-20th Century Spanish Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Julio Moisés Fernández de Villasante
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the 1940's by Spanish painter Julio Moises. Mostly
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1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of Lady Sewing in an Interior - Scottish 40s Pointilliste oil painting
By Murray McNeel Caird Urquhart
Located in London, GB
This superb Scottish 1940's portrait oil painting is by noted artist Murray Urquhart. He has been
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1940s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Violet Ann Gilbert - British 1920s art oil painting exh Paris Salon
By James Peter Quinn
Located in London, GB
1929 and was exhibited at The Paris Salon of that year. A beautiful portrait of a young woman from the
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1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Original George Petty Pinup 'woman sitting with sunhat and phone
Located in Spokane, WA
Original George Petty pinup, woman sitting with big sunhat and telephone. Archivally linen backed
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1940s American Realist Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

THERE IS A WOMAN IN EVERY COLOR Signed Relief Print, Black Woman Rainbow Figures
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
THERE IS A WOMAN IN EVERY COLOR is a hand pulled limited edition relief print created using linocut
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

A Woman Clothed in the Sun
By William Wolff
Located in Palm Springs, CA
School of Fine Arts, (now the San Francisco Art Institute), in the early 1940s. Returning to his studies
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints

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Woodcut

Une Dacquoise. (Anaïs) (A Woman from Dax (Landes)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
portraits in New York, and ceased printmaking in the 1940's.
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1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Etching

Original "Rimini" vintage poster woman on beach holding the sun
By René Gruau
Located in Spokane, WA
promote the beauty of its sunny beaches. This lovely woman in a straw hat holds a sizeable yellow beach
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1990s American Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Offset

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Woman with Flowers in Her Hair
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
of a woman whose financial empire was based on fraud. Thanks to his early years in a lawyer's office
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1940s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

PEPPER JELLY LADY Signed Lithograph Black Woman, Rooster, Train, Black Culture
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
paper, 100% acid free. PEPPER JELLY LADY portrays a rural scene with a black woman standing beside her
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

GANGSTERS Signed Lithograph, City Portrait, Men, Buildings, Dark Sunglasses
By Robin Morris
Located in Union City, NJ
graphic color portrait depicting two men dressed in vintage 1940's style detective overcoats and classic
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1980s Art Deco Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

CRUSADERS FOR JUSTICE Signed Linocut, Thurgood Marshall Portrait, Civil Rights
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
impactful graphic statement by the African-American woman printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

MECKLENBURG AUTUMN Signed Lithograph, Black Women Portrait, African Mask, Quilt
By Romare Bearden
Located in Union City, NJ
MECKLENBURG AUTUMN, an intriguing collage portrait of two black women. One woman is seated her face depicted
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1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

CRUSADERS FOR JUSTICE Signed Linocut Portrait, Thurgood Marshall, Civil Rights
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
impactful graphic statement by the African-American woman printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

YOUNG DOUGLASS Signed Linocut, Black Portrait Head African American Civil Rights
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
. YOUNG DOUGLASS is an impactful graphic statement by the renowned African-American and Mexican woman
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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
portrait of a young black woman with curly, half up half down afro hairstyle dressed in a deep blue suede
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

MAN Signed Woodcut, Face Portrait, Paper-Doll Cutout People, Mexican Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
, print documentation provided. MAN is an impactful portrait head woodcut depicting an indigenous Mexican
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Touch of Dew: Lisa Fonssagrives, New York
By Lillian Bassman
Located in New York, NY
intellectuals, and their daughter was raised free to live her life as an independent woman. Bassman originally
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1960s American Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Black and White: Mary Jane Russell, Le Pavillion
By Lillian Bassman
Located in New York, NY
intellectuals, and their daughter was raised free to live her life as an independent woman. Bassman originally
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1950s American Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Child in an American Landscape" James Gantt, Midwestern Regionalism, Missouri
Located in New York, NY
, Flushing Meadows, NY, 1939; Woman’s City Club, Kansas City, MO, 1940, 1941 (solo); Little Gallery
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1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Robert Frank
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
photographers during the 1940s and 1950s. With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker
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1960s Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Abstract Silhouette Hat Portraits - Female Illustrator of Golden Age
By Jessie Gillespie
Located in Miami, FL
magazines including Life, The Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, Mother and Child, McClure's
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1910s Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Portrait of Woman - China and Watercolor by Carlo Caroli - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original drawing in china and water color on paper by Carlo Caroli in the
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1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

"King of the Blues" - B.B. King Portrait in Watercolor and Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant portrait entitled "King of the Blues" by John Martin Socha (American, 1913-1983). Bold and
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1950s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

"Young Woman in Blue Dress", Stunning 1940s Portrait of Blonde Female
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fresh and vibrant portrait of a young woman with glowing blond hair and a blue 1940s frock is
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paint

THE DOOR OF JUSTICE Signed Color Lithograph, Lawyer and Clients, Civil Rights
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original "Radio Point Bleu Musical!" vintage French poster, linen backed
Located in Spokane, WA
the French radio manufacturer, showing a woman’s face in silhouette with a treble clef over her ear
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1940s American Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

CIGARS, CIGARETTES Signed Lithograph, Cigarette Girl, Blue, Yellow, Purple
By Robin Morris
Located in Union City, NJ
CIGARS,CIGARETTES by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph
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1980s Art Deco Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

THE DOOR OF JUSTICE Signed Lithograph, Black Lawyers Civil Rights Social Justice
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her
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Early 2000s 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
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

SECOND GENERATION Signed Lithograph, For My People by Margaret Walker, Protest
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
African-American woman artist Elizabeth Catlett, master printmaker and sculptor best known for her
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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