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ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - ) Three linoleum cuts.
In other folks' homes * In Sojourner truth I fought for the rights of women as well as Blacks * ...Special houses.... Each on wove paper, 1946-47. Each from the second edition of The Negro Woman suite, printed in 1989. Each signed, titled, dated 46 and numbered 5/20 in pencil, lower margin. Each very good impressions. Various sizes.
In 1945, Elizabeth Catlett won a Julius Rosenwald Fund Fellowship with a proposal to make a series of prints depicting the oppressions and struggles of The Negro Woman, based on her work at the George Washington Carver School in Harlem. In 1946, needing to leave her job to find the time, Catlett renewed her Rosenwald Fellowship, and travelled to Mexico City to finish the project. Working at the Taller Gráfica Popular, the famous printshop founded by Leopoldo Mendez, Raul Anguiano, Luis Arenal and Pablo O'Higgins, she completed the series of 15 linoleum cuts. The series represents a historical achievement in the self-depiction of women, black women and working-class women.
