Close Looking: Elizabeth Catlett’s American Women Unite
Elizabeth Catlett (born Washington, DC, USA, 1915; died Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2012), American Women Unite (Unidad de la Mujer Americana), 1963, colour woodcut on wove paper, Purchase, with funds from the Valerie Greenfield Thompson and Hunter Thompson Fund, and the Trier-Fodor Fund, 2021
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Close Looking: Elizabeth Catlett’s American Women Unite
The first work by the African American artist Elizabeth Catlett to enter the collection of the AGO joins numerous other works of protest and resistance in the collection of Prints & Drawings. Association Curator and R. Frasier Elliott Chair of Prints and Drawings, Alexa Greist, discusses why a work by Catlett has been on her list of desired additions to the collection since she began at the AGO.