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Elizabeth Catlett and Robert Blackburn

I have always worked hard in America

1946, printed 1989

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I have always worked hard in America

1946, printed 1989

Physical Qualities Linoleum cut, Sheet: 381 × 283 mm. (15 × 11 1/8 in.) Image: 219 × 152 mm. (8 5/8 × 6 in.)
Portfolio/Series From the series "The Black Woman"
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

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

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Printer

Robert Blackburn

American, 1920-2003

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SENSE OF HEARING. WAKE UP NINI!.... I HAVE BEEN CALLING HER FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR, AND SHE ALWAYS REPLIES: YES ADOLPHE. BUT NEITHER THE CHILD'S NAME NOR MINE IS ADOLPHE!
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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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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.
1845
ROBERT MACAIRE BEFORE HIS JUDGES. VERY WELL! YES, GENTLEMEN, I WAS RATHER UNFORTUNATE AT THE ASSIZE COURT... BUT MISFORTUNE IS ALWAYS RESPECTABLE!... MOREOVER, IT’S TRUE WHAT HAS BEEN SAID, I'VE A HABIT OF SUBTRACTING MONEY, IT'S EASIER TO EXCUSE ME THAN SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE IT'S HARDER FOR ME TO RESIST MY WEAKNESS... AS FOR THE REST, I AM ACCUSED OF SELLING LEAD FOR GOLD? TWENTY WITNESSES SWEAR TO IT. VERY WELL! I DENY IT FORTY TIMES AND SINCE T
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1837