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ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - ) Negro Woman.
Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1945. 306x220 mm; 12 1/8x8 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin. Printed by the artist at the Artists Student League, New York. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early print.
We have found only two other impressions of this print, each in private collections.
Provenance: Ex-collection the artist; gift to a private New York collection; hence by descent to the current owner.
Illustrated: Another impression in In the Spirit of Resistance, Lizetta Le-Falle Collins and Shira M. Goldman, The American Federation of the Arts, New York, 1996, plate 38, p. 125.
Elizabeth Catlett's first foray into printmaking was in lithography which she studied with Harry Sternberg at the Art Students League during 1944-45. This work is one of the earliest known prints by the artist; there are only a few examples of lithographs from the previous year. Negro Woman shows the artist's sculptural depiction of volume with a developed sense of African-American identity.
