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Domestic Worker

Elizabeth Catlett and Taller de Gráfica Popular

Domestic Worker

1945

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Domestic Worker

1945

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 619 x 499 mm. (24 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.) Image: 520 x 320 mm. (20 1/2 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Purchased as the gift of Lorraine and Mark Schapiro, Baltimore
Object Number 1997.20
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1997; Ed Ogul, Paramour Fine Arts, Franklin, MI
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'New on View,' June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.

James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris," December 7, 2005 - May 28, 2005.

Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.

Virginia Anderson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists," October 6, 2019 — July 5, 2020
Pinheiro, Bruno. "Thinking Blackness in Pan-American Artistic Networks: The Case of the Bienal de São Paolo," in Afterall, 54. pp. 92-101., ill. p. 100.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "Domestic Worker"; lower right in graphite: "ECatlett 1946"; lower right stamped in purple ink: "Taller de Grafica Popular, Mexico / 13 1952 / MEXICO D.F."

Artist

Elizabeth Catlett

born Washington D.C. 1915; died Cuernavaca, Mexico 2012
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