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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Elizabeth Catlett

Elizabeth Catlett

Catlett, Elizabeth
Pfeffer, Susanne
Black, Hannah

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American Art - African American & BlackGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 3753307025
ISBN13: 9783753307022
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 242
Weight: 3.75
Height: 1.26 Width: 9.53 Depth: 12.52
Language: English

A richly illustrated rediscovery of Elizabeth Catlett: printmaker, sculptor and tireless advocate for human rights

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) moved to Mexico in 1946. Still, her artwork always remained attuned to the Black American experience. Her expressive linocuts of sharecroppers, fieldworkers or, more symbolically, survivors depicted the lived realities of Black men and women, while her prints of Harriet Tubman and Phyllis Wheatley constructed a new national history. Catlett's body of work shares both aesthetic and theoretical sensibilities with major regional movements and their figures: women sculptors and printmakers working in Europe, including Barbara Hepworth and Käthe Kollwitz; Black American artists operating in an overtly political vein including John Woodrow Wilson and Jacob Lawrence; and members of the modernist Mexican School, including her partner, muralist Francisco Mora.

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