Negro Woman (2) by Elizabeth Catlett

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Title: Negro Woman (2) by Elizabeth Catlett
Date: 1956
Creator: Elizabeth Catlett, 1915-2012 See all items with this value
Contributor: Atlanta Annuals See all items with this value
Description: Elizabeth Catlett was an artist and educator from Washington, D.C., who repatriated to Mexico. Negro Woman is a wooden sculpture of a Black woman. Catlett crafts the woman with an intense stare through careful sculpting and inlaid onyx eyes.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; Slavery See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black Art See all items with this value; Sculpture See all items with this value
Location: Atlanta See all items with this value; Fulton County See all items with this value; Georgia See all items with this value; USA See all items with this value
Type: Sculpture See all items with this value
Medium: Wood See all items with this value
Measurements: 11.5 x 6.5 x 9 in.
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: 1956.008
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.CAU.156
Rights: All rights held by the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Clark Atlanta University, (404) 880-6102 Attn: Museum Director.
Contributing Institution: Clark Atlanta University
Source: Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
Collection: Atlanta Art Annuals See all items with this value
Language: English
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Item sets: Art; HBCU Art: No Less Lovely Being Dark; Portraits and Busts in the Atlanta University Annuals; Clark Atlanta University Collection; The Black Modernist Canon in the Atlanta University Annuals