Portrait head
name: label: maker
content: Catlett, Elizabeth
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Untitled portrait print and linocut block by Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) prepared as a demonstration piece for a Howard University class in the 1960s or 1970s.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Catlett was born in Washington, D.C. She moved to Mexico City in the late 1940s and worked with the printmaking collective Taller de Grafica Popular, which was interested to prepare art to promote social causes. Her art in printmaking and sculpture focused on the human figure, particularly that of African Americans and Mexicans.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Gift of Lila Asher.
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lila Asher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0233.02
label: accession number
content: 2012.0233
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0233.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: block, linoleum
label: Object Name
content: block, printing, linoleum
label: Object Type
content: Linocut
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linoleum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.7 cm x 29.7 cm x .2 cm; 8 15/16 in x 11 11/16 in x 3/32 in