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Catlett, Elizabeth (1915-2012) In the Fields, from the I am the Negro Woman Series.
1947.
Linocut on wove paper, print number three of an edition of seventeen, numbered, signed and dated along the bottom margin, full sheet, slightly toned at the bottom, 19 x 12 1/2 in.
In the Fields "is one in a set of fifteen [prints] that Catlett created as a chronicle of the oppression, resistance, and survival of African American women." (Quoted from https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/491475) The series, originally published circa 1946-1947, was updated to I am the Black Women when Catlett republished the fifteen prints in 1989.
"No other field is closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity."
