Artist

Elizabeth Catlett

born Washington, DC 1915-died Cuernavaca, Mexico 2012
Also known as
  • Elizabeth Catlett-Mora
  • Elizabeth Catlett Mora
  • Alice Elizabeth Catlett
Born
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Died
Cuernavaca, Mexico
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Born in Washington, D.C., lives in Mexico. Prizewinning artist, teacher whose prints and sculptures, such as Homage to My Young Black Sisters (1968) and later works, express her concern about social problems.

Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)

Works by this artist (4 items)

Yayoi Kusama, Fire, ca. 1954, watercolor, pastel, ink, tempera on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Benton and The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, 2019.32.3
Fire
Dateca. 1954
watercolor, pastel, ink, tempera on paper
Not on view
Yayoi Kusama, Deep Grief, 1954, watercolor, ink on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Benton and The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, 2019.32.2
Deep Grief
Date1954
watercolor, ink on paper
Not on view
Yayoi Kusama, Autumn, 1953, watercolor, pastel, ink on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Benton and The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, 2019.32.1
Autumn
Date1953
watercolor, pastel, ink on paper
Not on view
Yayoi Kusama, Forlorn Spot, 1953, watercolor, pastel, ink on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Benton and The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, 2019.32.4
Forlorn Spot
Date1953
watercolor, pastel, ink on paper
Not on view

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Side by side artworks. On the left: a painting with African mask references. On the right: a black sculpture, also with African mask references.
The lives of Loïs Mailou Jones and Elizabeth Catlett intersected briefly but formatively in the 1930s at Howard University
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