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 (1 item)

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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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