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Elizabeth
Catlett
Reclining Woman,
2004
Bronze, 19 ½
x 37 x 13 inches
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Born
Washington, DC
Lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and New York City |
Education |
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1955,
1947-48 |
Studied
wood carving with Jose L. Ruiz and ceramic sculpture with
Francisco Zuniga, Escuela de Pintura y Escultura, Esmeralda, Mexico |
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1943 |
Studied
with sculptor Ossip Zadkine, NY |
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1942-43 |
Studied
lithography at Art Students League, New York |
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1941 |
Studied
ceramics, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois |
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1940 |
MFA,
University of Iowa |
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1935 |
BS,
cum laude, Howard University School of Art, Washington, DC |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2002 |
Elizabeth
Catlett: Sculptures and Prints, The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Elizabeth Catlett: Recent Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery. New York |
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1999 |
Elizabeth
Catlett: Living Legend, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1998 |
Elizabeth
Catlett Sculpture: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, organized by the
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY;
monograph essays by Michael Brenson, Ph.D. and Lowery Stokes Sims,
Ph.D.;
traveling exhibition
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Elizabeth Catlett: Prints & Drawings, Sragow Gallery, New
York |
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1996 |
Prints
from Mexico, curated by Jerald R. Green, Queens College Art Center,
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Flushing, NY
Struggle and Serenity: The Visionary Art of Elizabeth Catlett,
curated by
Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, The Caribbean Cultural Center/African
Diaspora Institute, New York
In Rare Form, guest curator, June Lambla; essay by Melanie
Herzog, Ph.D.;
Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC |
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1994 |
In
the Hemisphere of Love: Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora, Isobel
Neal
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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1993 |
Sculpture,
catalogue essay by Lowery Stokes Sims, June Kelly Gallery,
New York
The Elizabeth Catlett Exhibition, James E. Lewis Museum of Art,
Morgan
State University, Baltimore, MD
Elizabeth Catlett: Works on Paper, 1944-1992, organized by
Hampton
University Museum, VA; traveling exhibition; essays by Dr. Samella
S.
Lewis and Dr. Richard J. Powell |
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1990-92 |
A
Courtyard Apart: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora,
catalogue essay by Dr. Floyd Coleman, introduction by Dr. Margaret
Walker Alexander, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; traveling
exhibition |
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1991 |
African
American Women Artists: Elizabeth Catlett and Lois Mailou Jones,
Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture and Prints, Malcolm Brown Gallery,
Shaker
Heights, OH
Pelloon Gallery, Washington, DC
Sculpture and Print exhibition, curated by Ernestine Brown of the
Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH
Columbus Museum of Art, OH |
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1990 |
Junior
Black Academy Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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1989 |
Elizabeth
Catlett: Print Retrospective, Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY |
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1987 |
Museo
Diego Rivera, Cervantino Festival, Guanajuato, Guan, Mexico
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture/ Francisco Mora: Watercolors,
Arizona State
University Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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1986 |
Mississippi
Museum of Art, Jackson, MS |
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1985 |
Spelman
College, Atlanta, GA
Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA |
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1984 |
Masur
Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
University of Mississippi, University, MS
Howard University, Washington, DC |
Selected Public Collections |
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Baltimore
Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
The DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Narodniko Musea (National Museum), Prague, Czechoslovakia |
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