Elizabeth Catlett
My right is a future of equality with other Americans
1945
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Elizabeth Catlett
My right is a future of equality with other Americans
1945
Physical Qualities
Linoleum cut printed in green and black, Sheet: 273 x 206 mm. (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
Image: 226 x 151 mm. (8 7/8 x 5 15/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 15 from the series "The Negro Woman (retitled "The Black Woman" in 1989)"
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Jeffrey A. Legum, Baltimore
Object Number
2013.5
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2013; Peter Wilson and Jenness Hall, Baltimore; relative of Jenness Hall; Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington DC
Washington DC, Barnett Aden Gallery, "Paintings, Sculpture, and Prints of The Negro Woman," December 1947 - January 1948, no. 30.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.
Brooklyn Museum, "Elizabeth Catlett: A Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies", September 13, 2024 - January 19, 2025; National Gallery of Art, March 9, 2025 - July 6, 2025.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.
Brooklyn Museum, "Elizabeth Catlett: A Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies", September 13, 2024 - January 19, 2025; National Gallery of Art, March 9, 2025 - July 6, 2025.
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Catlett 1947"
Artist
Elizabeth Catlett
born Washington D.C. 1915; died Cuernavaca, Mexico 2012
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