<I>Flowers for George Jackson</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1975
name: label: Created by
content: Elizabeth Catlett, Mexican and American, 1915 - 2012
label: Subject of
content: George Jackson, American, 1941 - 1971
notes: label: Description
content: A color woodcut print titled “Flowers for George Jackson” by Elizabeth Catlett. At the center left is a black and white image of a smiling George Jackson, an incarcerated activist who was killed in prison. In the right lower corner is a black and white image of the face of a child repeated over two rows of three. Along the bottom left corner is a horizontal row of five roses gradient in color from left to right, from scarlet red to canary yellow.
label: Description
content: On the front of the print, the artist signed and dated in the lower right corner, outside of the print area [E. Catlett 1975] and in pencil on the lower left corner, outside of the print area [1/20 Flowers for George Jackson]. On the back of the print, in the upper left corner, is an inscription handwritten in pencil [500].
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Black power
label: Topic
content: Prisons
label: Topic
content: Resistance
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Carroll Parrott Blue
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.39.4
objectType: label: Type
content: woodcuts
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Elizabeth Catlett
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 17 1/4 × 23 3/4 in. (43.8 × 60.3 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 22 × 31 in. (55.9 × 78.7 cm)