Women of America

Elizabeth Catlett, Artist Taller de Grafica Popular, Mexico City, Publisher
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Women of America

1960

Elizabeth Catlett (Artist) American, 1915 - 2012 Taller de Grafica Popular, Mexico City (Publisher) 1937 - 2010

Linoleum cut printed in color on off-white wove paper

Block: 9 1/2 × 12 7/8 inches (24.1 × 32.7 cm) Sheet: 14 × 18 3/4 inches (35.6 × 47.6 cm)

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African American Art

Museum Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Associates of the American Wing Special Projects Fund, Graphic Arts Council Purchase Fund, Michelle Andonian, Art to the Schools, Marianna and Bennie Bailey, Beverly Baker, Lois Irene Banks, Dorothy L. Barnes, Glenn and Nancy Barr, James and Eugenie Beall, Irving and Harriet Berg, Andrew L. Camden, Dorothy A. Cartwright, Francois and Marlies Castaing, John and Arlene Cobau, Joan Cords, Dianne Cornell, Michael Crane, Dolores Curiel, Robert Gorlin and Mary Ann Demattia, Virginia Dickson, Loretta and George Dimitruck, Daniel and Aida Dismondy, Stanley and Lenore Dorfman, Philip and Marlene Erlenbach, Wendy and Leonard Evans, Leila and Martin Evelev, William and Roxanne Fay, Christraud and John Geary, Roslyne and Kenneth Gitlin, Scot and Judith Goldberg, Herman and Barbara Goldsmith, Barbara Goldstein, Rosemary Gugino, Rosemary Harm, Shuk and Ralph Hartshorn, Rebecca Hein, Peter and Frances Higbie, Robert and Sarah Hunter, Sharon and Robert Hurlbert, Josephine E. Jackson, Karen Jallos, Elaine Johnston, Kathleen Jolly, Josephine V. Jones, William and Ellen Kahn, Carole Keller, Sarah Knight, Jean and Alan Kolod, Fifi Kushner, Robert and Leslie Lazzerin, Ruth Lefkowitz, Myrle and Richard Leland, Max Lepler, Clif Levin, Martha Lilley, Iva Lisikewycz, Ed and Jean McKeehan, Charlie and Mary Meier, Valerie Mercer, Richard and Alyssa Mertz, Fred and Alice Metry, Robert and Janet Miller, Doreen Millman, Stanley and Lenore Millman, Lillie Ming, Alexander and Carole Nakeff, Barbara Nelson, John and Martha Nitz, Mary Lee Obryan, Mary M. O'Connor, Gloria Parker, Charlotte Pozniak, Carol A. Quaglia, Morton and Diane Raban, Donald Ransom, Geri Raszkowski, Elaine and Louis Redmond, Miriam Reed, Geraldine Risgin, Frank and Carol Lee Romano, James and Rose Ryan, Harriet Siden, Gilbert and Lila Silverman, Mary Ann Simon, Suzane Sloat and Ray Okonski Foundation, Dr. Daniel Snower, David and Cyvia Snyder, Janice Sobel, Nancy Sojka, Judith Sommers, Shirley and Dean Sova, Susan Kahn Sovel, Leonard and Roslyn Trunsky, James and Paulette Turner, Nola Tutag, Henry and Judith Velleman, Leonard and Jean Walle, Norman and Carol Coskey Wechsler, Doris Weil, Henry III and Heidi Wineman, John and Helga Wise, Barbara Wojcik, and Richard and Fay Wolin in memory of Dorothy Walker

2006.91

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Markings

Signed in pencil, lower right: ECatlett

Titled in pencil, lower left: Mujer de America Inscribed in pencil, lower left: 20/40

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2006-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Elizabeth Catlett, Women of America, 1960, linoleum cut printed in color on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Associates of the American Wing Special Projects Fund, et al., 2006.91.

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