<I>Survivor</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1983
name: label: Created by
content: Elizabeth Catlett, Mexican and American, 1915 - 2012
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
notes: label: Description
content: A framed black and white linocut print titled “Survivor” by Elizabeth Catlett. The print references Dorothea Lange’s photograph “Ex-Slave with a Long Memory, Alabama,” taken in 1937. Catlett’s print mirrors Lange’s photograph. The print captures a formerly enslaved elderly woman standing in the center of a field holding a thin walking stick with both hands. She is looking off to the right. She is wearing an apron, a hoop earring in her right ear, and a head scarf wrapped over her forehead and tied at the nape of her neck, covering her hair. The background consists of black and white patterns resembling a field.
label: Description
content: The print is signed by the artist on the front in the lower right corner in pencil [E. Catlett] and the title is written in the lower left in pencil [Survivor A/P].
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Agriculture
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Labor
label: Topic
content: Poverty
label: Topic
content: Rural life
label: Topic
content: Slavery
label: Topic
content: Women
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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: 2023.39.5ab
objectType: label: Type
content: linocuts
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 (unframed): 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.1 × 19.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (framed): 21 1/4 × 17 1/4 in. (54 × 43.8 cm)