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Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Blackburn

In Phillis Wheatley I proved intellectual equality in the midst of slavery

1945

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Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Blackburn

In Phillis Wheatley I proved intellectual equality in the midst of slavery

1945

Physical Qualities Linoleum cut, Sheet: 381 × 279 mm. (15 × 11 in.) Image: 232 × 154 mm. (9 1/8 × 6 1/16 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 2022.39

Inscribed: Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 15/20 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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