<I>All the People</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1992
name: label: Created by
content: Elizabeth Catlett, Mexican and American, 1915 - 2012
label: Printed by
content: J.K. Fine Editions Company/Mojo Portfolio, American, founded 1975
label: Subject of
content: Margaret Walker, American, 1915 - 1998
notes: label: Caption
content: This print is from Elizabeth Catlett's For My People portfolio, which she created for the 50th anniversary of the poem by the same name by Catlett's close friend Margaret Walker. Walker's poem "For My People," was first published in Poetry magazine in 1937.
label: Description
content: A framed color lithograph by Elizabeth Catlett featuring nine line-drawn illustrations of the faces of men, women, and children inside a central beige circle. The circle sits within a rectangle, the top half of which is a light blue field and the bottom of which is a rainbow of linear segments in yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, and green. The print is titled, signed, and dated by the artist below the lithograph’s margin, “44/99” on the left and “E. Catlett ‘92” on the right. On the verso is an ink inscription, “THE ARTIST TO ELNORA INC. (E.T. WILLIAMS) 1998.”
place: label: Place collected
content: New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Poetry
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Edgar Thomas Williams, Jr. Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: For My People
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Auldyn Higgins Williams and E.T. Williams, Jr. in memory of Robert Grayson ("Mickey") McGuire, III and his parents Eleanor Hackett McGuire and R.G. McGuire, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.145.2ab
objectType: label: Type
content: lithographs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Artists Rights Society
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: (a) lithographic ink on paper
label: Medium
content: (b) glass and wood
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (framed): 24 3/16 × 21 1/8 × 9/16 in. (61.5 × 53.7 × 1.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (lithograph): 17 5/16 × 14 15/16 in. (44 × 38 cm)