a linoleum cut. Paintings from Catlett’s New York period, prior to her move to Mexico in 1946, are very scarce. 0000015302 00000 n 0000000016 00000 n 0000080617 00000 n In her sculptures, Catlett channeled a Modernist sensibility, molding curvaceous figures that engaged with abstraction and echoed the civil rights struggles in which she participated; her prints and paintings, including her iconic work Price ranges of medium-sized prints by Elizabeth CatlettPrice ranges of medium-sized prints by Elizabeth CatlettOther works from The Brodsky Center Holiday Print Pop-up Sale 0000004597 00000 n 0000006722 00000 n 0000053891 00000 n 0000012251 00000 n 0000044322 00000 n She created the shape of the sharecropper using only lines as 0000057656 00000 n 0000011332 00000 n We have located or found records of only eight other paintings in private collections. She will be remembered as one of the great American artists of the 20th Century. 0000006833 00000 n 0000122198 00000 n 0000076473 00000 n 0000032634 00000 n 0000004015 00000 n Celebrated for her prints and sculptures, Catlett employed formal devices that expressed her civic and social interests, particularly the Civil Rights movement. Linoleum cut. 0000121420 00000 n 332.1988. Gift of the artist. The entire Linocut is made up of lines. Elizabeth Catlett; Sharecropper, 1952 (LACMA) I was a young, wide-eyed magazine editor just starting my career when I had the great fortune to meet the artist Elizabeth Catlett. 0000094946 00000 n This is a fine impression of this rare early work. 0000005389 00000 n 0000104975 00000 n 0000001796 00000 n 0000105387 00000 n 0000011075 00000 n View Elizabeth Catlett’s 589 artworks on artnet. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. In her sculptures, Catlett channeled a Modernist sensibility, molding curvaceous figures that engaged with abstraction and echoed the civil rights struggles in which she participated; her prints and paintings, including her iconic work The Sharecropper (1952), conveyed her concerns in sympathetically rendered figurative expressions. 0000014824 00000 n 0000061126 00000 n 0000006051 00000 n 0000027658 00000 n The artist divided her time between Mexico and the United States, a lifestyle that informed not only her politics but also her approach to form and printmaking. Black Maternity - ELIZABETH CATLETT Medium: lithograph. 0000123223 00000 n The mark making in Elizabeth Catlett's Sharecropper, shown, identifies the print as a linocut. Catlett uses texture in the Linocut because it is cut into wood which means it has some sort of rough texture. 0000017951 00000 n 0000013000 00000 n 0000293708 00000 n 0000002299 00000 n 0000013262 00000 n

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The patterns of black and white in the print are the result of each white mark having been cut out of a block so that the marks remain white when the surface of the block is inked and the block is printed.

0000012617 00000 n Elizabeth Catlett ’s sculptures and prints were all about celebrating the triumphs achieved and the obstacles faced by African-Americans. 0000044936 00000 n 76 0 obj <> endobj xref Her artwork explored what it meant to be black and American. exposure times were very long. Elizabeth Catlett. this sharecropper like today’s migrant workers? 0000013783 00000 n 0000095213 00000 n 0000080877 00000 n 0000006946 00000 n Elizabeth Catlett's Sharecropper is an example of. 0000104201 00000 n Paintings by Elizabeth Catlett. %PDF-1.5 %���� 0000104901 00000 n 0000004851 00000 n 0000057275 00000 n In her sculptures, Catlett channeled a Modernist sensibility, molding curvaceous figures that engaged with abstraction and echoed the civil rights struggles in which she participated; her prints and paintings, including her iconic work “I have always wanted my art to service my people—to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential,” Elizabeth Catlett has said. Elizabeth Catlett, Mexico City. 0000087776 00000 n The face, hat, body, and background are composed of nothing but lines. 0000058111 00000 n Drawings and Prints 0000072558 00000 n 0000044905 00000 n 0000014377 00000 n