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ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - 2012)
My right is a future of equality with other Americans
.
Linoleum cut printed in green and black on buff wove paper, 1947. 235x152 mm; 9
1
/
4
x6 inches,
wide margins. Signed in pencil, lower right.
This dark impression is an extremely scarce example of a proof from Catlett’s 1946-47 important
series of linoleum cuts
I am the NegroWoman
.We have located only one other early impression with
this tone of green ink in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art - it is signed and dated
1947. A later edition of 20 was printed at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop, NewYork,
in 1989, and entitled
I am the BlackWoman
.
[7,000/10,000]