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Elizabeth Catlett and Robert Blackburn

I have always worked hard in America

1945

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Elizabeth Catlett and Robert Blackburn

I have always worked hard in America

I have always worked hard in America

1945

Physical Qualities Linoleum cut, Sheet: 381 × 283 mm. (15 × 11 1/8 in.) Image: 219 × 152 mm. (8 5/8 × 6 in.)
Credit Line Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon; with additional funds from the Blanche Adler Memorial Fund, The John Dorsey and Robert W. Armacost Acquisitions Endowment, and purchased as the gift of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society
Object Number 2022.34

Inscribed: Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 19/20 in pencil by the artist

Artist

Elizabeth Catlett

1914–2011

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

Robert Blackburn

1919–2002

American, 1920-2003
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1842
SIR... HERE IS WHAT WE WILL BE GIVING THIS YEAR AS A BONUS TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE MUSICAL UNIVERSE... 125 ALBUMS THAT YOU CAN HAVE BOUND, SOME MORE MAGNIFICENTLY THAN OTHERS. ELEVEN PORTRAITS OF MR. MUSARD, AT DIFFERFENT AGES, BUT ALWAYS WITH THE SAME BLACK SUIT. THREE TRUMPETS, MORE OR LESS IN KEY. FORTY ADMISSION TICKETS, EVEN EXIT TICKETS, FOR EACH OF OUR CONCERTS...EIGHTY SEVEN MUSICAL SCORES...AND A REED PIPE.
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