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How Elizabeth Catlett made her prints over the course of her career varies. She is most famous for her linoleum cut prints, which she learned to produce while studying at the Taller de Gráfica Popular in Mexico City, Mexico. It was this method that Catlett employed when creating 1952's Sharecropper, one of Catlett's most enduring images. She also created woodcut prints, screenprints and lithographic prints. On 1stDibs, explore a range of Elizabeth Catlett art.
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Homage to the Panthers, signed/n lithograph shown at Art Students League, Framed
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in New York, NY
This exact work was exhibited at the Art Students League in an important show. (details below)
Elizabeth Catlett
Homage to the Panthers, 1993
Color Lithograph on wove paper with deck...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
YOUNG DOUGLASS Signed Linocut, Black Portrait Head African American Civil Rights
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
YOUNG DOUGLASS is a hand pulled, original limited edition relief print created using linoleum cut printmaking techniques on white archival Somerset White paper, 100% acid free. Hand signed in pencil by Elizabeth Catlett on the lower margin, embossed with printer's chop mark on lower left, print documentation provided.
YOUNG DOUGLASS is an impactful graphic statement by the renowned African-American and Mexican woman sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett, created as a tribute to Frederick Douglass, the most distinguished black American human rights leader of the 19th century. Strong impression printed in rich black ink on white wove paper, a powerful portrait of Douglass as a young man, with his distinct facial features, thick black hair, well-dressed in a formal high collar shirt...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Linocut
MAN Signed Woodcut, Ethnic Face Portrait, Standing Figures, Mexican Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
MAN is a hand pulled, original limited edition relief print created using woodcut and serigraphy(silkscreen) printmaking techniques on white archival heavyweight paper, 100% acid fre...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
To Marry, For My People, Elizabeth Catlett
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches 300gm paper. Paper Size: 21.8125 x 18.3125 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, For My People, 1992. Published...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Blues, signed/N limited edition lithograph, famed African American artist Framed
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Catlett
Blues, 1983
Color offset lithograph and lithograph on cream wove paper
Signed, titled, dated and numbered (126/130) in graphite pencil on the front
Printed and publ...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
SINGING THEIR SONGS Signed Lithograph, Graphic Portrait Heads, Black Culture
By Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Union City, NJ
SINGING THEIR SONGS is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free created by the highly accla...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
