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Elizabeth
Catlett
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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, New York |
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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, IL |
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1940 |
MFA, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
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1935 |
BS,
cum laude, Howard University School of Art, Washington, DC |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2009 |
Elizabeth Catlett:
Recent Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Six Decades: Drawing and Prints by Elizabeth Catlett, Stella
Jones Gallery,
New Orleans, LA |
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2007 |
Solitude and
Solidarity: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Delta Arts Center,
Winston-Salem, NC |
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2006 |
For My People: The
Art of Elizabeth Catlett, New Jersey City University,
Jersey City, NJ; catalogue
The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: Selections from the Hampton University
Collection,
Hampton, VA |
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2005 |
Elizabeth Catlett:
Prints 1946 – Present, from the Reverend Douglas E. Moore
Collection and the Catlett
Collection, co-sponsored by The Southern
Graphics Council and The Arts
Club of Washington, Monroe Gallery,
The
Arts Club of Washington, DC |
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2002 |
Elizabeth Catlett:
Prints and Sculptures, curated by Jane Glaubinger, The
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; brochure
Elizabeth Catlett: Recent Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture
and Works on Paper, Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker
Heights, OH |
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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;
catalogue
In Rare Form, guest curator, June Lambla; essay by Melanie
Herzog, Ph.D.;
Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC;
catalogue |
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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, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue
The Elizabeth Catlett Exhibition, from the collection of Reverend
Douglas E.
Moore, James E. Lewis Museum of Art,
Morgan State University, Baltimore,
MD
Elizabeth Catlett: Works on Paper, 1944-1992, essays by Dr.
Samella S. Lewis
and Dr. Richard J. Powell, organized by
Hampton University Museum, VA;
traveling exhibition |
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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
Joint Exhibition with Francisco Mora, Montgomery Museum of Art,
AL
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture and Prints, Malcolm Brown Gallery,
Shaker Heights,
OH
Pelloon Gallery, Washington, DC
Sculpture and Print Exhibition, curated by Ernestine Brown,
Malcolm Brown
Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH;
traveled to Columbus Museum of Art, OH |
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1990 |
Junior Black Academy
of Arts and Letters, Dallas, TX |
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1989 |
Elizabeth
Catlett: Print Retrospective, Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY |
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1987 |
Cervantino
Festival, Museo Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture /Francisco Mora: Watercolors,
Arizona State
University Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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1986 |
Mississippi
Museum of Art, Jackson, MS |
Selected Public Collections |
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Art Institute of
Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
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
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Musuem of Art, PA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
The Columbus Museum of Art, 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, New York
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Narodniko Musea (National Museum), Prague, Czechoslovakia
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Atlanta University, GA
Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Hampton University, VA
Howard University, Washington, DC
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IO
Instituto National de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York |
 
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