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Elizabeth Catlett "Sharecropper" 1952
American and Mexican graphic artist and sculptor.

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2021-04-30

Art Heaven: Happy birthday to African-American & Mexican artist & sculptor Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012)

"Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people."

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2021-04-16

Associate Dean of Students for Inclusion and Engagement at Dr. Ines Maturana Sendoya shares her perspective on Elizabeth Catlett's famous linocut, 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳:  "This piece caught my eye because it represents for me strength, wisdom, and dignity...

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2021-02-17

Artist Elizabeth Catlett🎨
Sculptor and graphic artist~
works depicted the African American woman experience in America, during the Harlem Renaissance~    
https://t.co/Hsbw9Qq40O…

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2021-02-05

Dancing II , 2003 by US artist Elizabeth Catlett

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2020-07-22

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012)

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2020-05-02

Artist Elizabeth Catlett🎨
Sculptor and graphic artist
works depicted the African American woman experience in America, during the Harlem Renaissance~
https://t.co/51FGD3V6v4

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2020-02-12

Pioneering artist Elizabeth Catlett's print of Sojourner Truth, 1947, African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was enslaved from birth in Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826

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2020-01-31

"Seated Woman" by Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), 1962, carved mahogany sculpture, initialed “EC,” sold to the Saint Louis Art Museum for $389,000 (est. $100,000/150,000) at https://t.co/AQhN2rmC42

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2019-12-26

Born on this day in 1915, prominent African-American sculptor and printmaker (Sharecropper, ca. 1952 (printed 1968-70), Linocut, Gift of Paula Kaplan Hawkins (Class of 1957), 2003.13)

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2019-04-16

Pioneering African American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Black Maternity, 1959

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2019-03-31

ELIZABETH CATLETT
Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) was an African-American artist who explored themes relating to race and feminism in her range of sculpture, paintings and prints. Catlett highlighted the struggle of blackpeople with her art.

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2019-03-05

"Untitled (Civil Rights Protest), 1974, is a powerful representation of the violence faced by those who protested during the Civil Rights era. Catlett's work in the late 1960s and early 1970s shared a political consciousness with and … https://t.co/hOIc9OzJqV

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2019-02-09

Elizabeth Catlett 1915-2012
African/American Artist

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2019-01-16

Elizabeth Catlett's print of Sojourner Truth, 1947, African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826

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2018-11-15

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Black Maternity,1959 by Elizabeth Catlett

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2018-11-02

blog: Elizabeth Catlett: Homage To My Black Sisters
https://t.co/lSM8MGC784

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2018-09-07