<I>Negro es Bello I</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1968
name: label: Created by
content: Elizabeth Catlett, Mexican and American, 1915 - 2012
notes: label: Caption
content: "I’m not thinking about doing things new and different. I’m thinking about art for my people." - Elizabeth Catlett
label: Caption
content: Elizabeth Catlett was a versatile sculptor and printmaker committed to creating work promoting women, family, community, and equality. Throughout her career she employed art to express her views on social justice as well as to represent the lofty ideals of beauty. At a time when the general standard of beauty in America was the Eurocentric model, Negro Es Bello I embodies the emerging movement within black communities to embrace the wide array of Afrocentric features, skin color, and hair texture as beautiful. With this image Catlett proclaimed her connection to the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s and the celebration of blackness as a source of ethnic pride.
label: Description
content: This lithograph depicts the head of an child from the neck up. Shown in profile slightly from the rear, the head faces to the right. The child has short hair, high cheekbones and long eyelashes. Done in shades of grey, the background has irregular black lines against a textured grey field. There is a wide margin around the image. It is signed and titled along the bottom margin.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Africa
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Children
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
label: Movement
content: Black is Beautiful
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.233.4ab
objectType: label: Type
content: lithographs
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © 2020 Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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): 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm)