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Elizabeth Catlett

Magic Mask

1989

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Elizabeth Catlett

Magic Mask

1989

Physical Qualities Mexican onyx, wooden base, 40 x 13 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (101.6 x 34.3 x 34.3 cm.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1993.76
June Kelly Gallery, New York, 'Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture', May 8-June 8, 1993
Lynn Norment, "Dean of Women Artists", Ebony Magazine, April 1993, p. 50.
Laura Morris, "In the Spotlight", Baltimore Museum of Art, 1998

Inscribed: VERSO: Signed, at B, towards R, 'EC'; BOTTOM OF BASE: June Kelly Gallery label

Artist

Elizabeth Catlett

1914–2011

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