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Catlett, Elizabeth (1915-2022) Gossip.
New Brunswick, NJ: Printed by the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper at Rutgers University for the New York Print Club, 2005.
Color photo-lithograph and digital print on Somerset wove paper with full margins; signed, titled, dated and numbered 105/200 in pencil, with the blind stamp; 395 x 458 mm; 15½ x 18 in.
Catlett was denied admission to the Carnegie Institute of Technology because of her race. Instead, she enrolled at Howard University and later received her MFA in sculpture from the University of Iowa. Aside from her prodigious sculptural work, which exhibits her mastery over a range of materials, Catlett was also a prolific and successful printmaker. Grant Wood, one of her instructors at the University of Iowa, was an early inspiration. He advised her to follow the old writer's adage: write what you know. And so Catlett took scenes from her own life and made them her art. She and her husband, printmaker Charles White, moved to Mexico City, where she joined the Taller de Gráfica Popular, a printmaking collective for political revolutionaries. Catlett worked and taught in Mexico throughout her career, splitting her time between New York in her later years.
