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Artists›Elizabeth Catlett

Elizabeth Catlett

1915

WA-00013031

SculptureHarlem Renaissance

Representation

None documented

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Publications Referenced

90%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ290331

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Committed to Print

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%
BiographyGallery Generic· 72%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (5)

Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/elizabeth-catlett
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
White-Cubehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/elizabeth-catlett
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/1037
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/elizabeth-catlett
Tier 1 · Institutional85%
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Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%

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Movement

Harlem Renaissance

Medium

Sculpture

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (59)

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Magic People

2002 · color linoleum cut

Sheet: 37.4 x 35.7 cm (14 3/4 x 14 1/16 in.); Image: 25.7 x 24.4 cm (10 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Woman Fixing Her Hair

1993 · Mahogany and opals

27 1/8 × 15 7/8 × 14 1/2 in., 23.5 lb. (68.9 × 40.3 × 36.8 cm, 10.7 kg)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

For My People

1992 · Illustrated book with six lithographs

Overall: 22 1/16 x 18 1/2" (56 x 47 cm); page: 21 13/16 x 18 5/16" (55.4 x 46.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled: A Second Generation

1992 · color lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Untitled: Walking Blindly

1992 · color lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

Central America Says No!

1986 · Linoleum cut

composition: 37 5/8 x 20 9/16" (95.5 x 52.2 cm); sheet: 47 9/16 x 31 9/16" (120.8 x 80.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Isobel Neal Gallery Records

1985 · Contact sheets, typed papers, negatives, cd-rom, carbon typescript papers, postcard, printed papers, photocopies, slides, color photographs and black and white photographs.

7 boxes: W.: 122 cm (48 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Two Generations

1979 · lithograph

Sheet: 56.6 x 76.2 cm (22 5/16 x 30 in.); Image: 48.2 x 55.8 cm (19 x 21 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Harriet

1975 · Linoleum cut

composition: 12 7/16 x 10 1/8" (31.6 x 25.7 cm); sheet: 18 5/16 x 15 1/16" (46 x 38.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Man

1975 · woodcut and color linocut

Sheet: 66 x 45.3 cm (26 x 17 13/16 in.); Image: 44.8 x 30 cm (17 5/8 x 11 13/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Man

1972 · Color woodcut and linocut in black on off-white wove paper

Sight: 64.5 × 44 cm (25 7/16 × 17 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Malcolm X Speaks for Us

1969 · Linoleum cut

composition: 34 13/16 x 27 3/16" (88.4 x 69.1 cm); sheet: 41 5/16 x 30 11/16" (104 x 77.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Mother and Child

1956 · Terra cotta

11 1/4 x 7 x 7" (28.6 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

La Presa

1952 · Linocut on gray laid paper

Image: 45.2 × 37.4 cm (17 13/16 × 14 3/4 in.); Sheet: 63.8 × 48.5 cm (25 1/8 × 19 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sharecropper

1952 · Color linocut on cream Japanese paper

Image: 45 × 43.1 cm (17 3/4 × 17 in.); Sheet: 55.7 × 51.5 cm (21 15/16 × 20 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Sharecropper

1952 · Linoleum cut

composition: 17 5/8 x 16 15/16" (44.8 x 43 cm); sheet: 18 1/2 x 18 15/16" (47 x 48.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Sharecropper

1952 · Linocut printed in green and black

Sheet: 20 1/16 × 18 7/8 in. (51 × 48 cm) Image: 17 1/2 × 16 9/16 in. (44.5 × 42 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Civil Rights Congress

1949 · Linocut on cream wove paper

Image: 31 × 18 cm (12 1/4 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 46.2 × 32.5 cm (18 1/4 × 12 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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I am the Negro woman

1947 · Linoleum cut

Sheet (Irregular): 10 1/8 × 7 9/16 in. (25.7 × 19.2 cm) Image (Irregular): 5 3/16 × 4 in. (13.2 × 10.2 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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I have given the world my songs

1947 · Linoleum cut

Sheet: 10 1/16 × 7 1/4 in. (25.6 × 18.4 cm) Image (Irregular): 7 1/2 × 5 1/16 in. (19.1 × 12.9 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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In Sojourner Truth I fought for the rights of women as well as Negroes

1947 · Linoleum cut

Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 3/8 in. (26 × 18.7 cm) Image: 8 7/8 × 5 15/16 in. (22.5 × 15.1 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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My reward has been bars between me and the rest of the land

1947 · Linoleum cut

Sheet: 10 1/16 × 7 9/16 in. (25.6 × 19.2 cm) Image: 4 9/16 × 5 7/8 in. (11.6 × 14.9 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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I have studied in ever increasing numbers

1947 · Linoleum cut

Sheet: 12 3/8 × 18 13/16 in. (31.4 × 47.8 cm) Image: 6 13/16 × 9 in. (17.3 × 22.9 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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My role has been important in organizing the unorganized

1947 · Linoleum cut

Sheet: 12 3/16 × 16 1/16 in. (31 × 40.8 cm) Image: 6 × 9 in. (15.2 × 22.9 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artwork sources (5)

59 published of 81 catalogued · 52 with image

MoMA
22 publishedof 44 catalogued43 img
Whitney
15 published
Art Institute Chicago
9 published9 img
The Met
7 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 6)

6 entries · 1 sources

Magic People
2002 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Two Generations
1979 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled: A Second Generation
1992 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled: Walking Blindly
1992 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Man
1975 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
I Have Always Worked Hard in America
1946 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Relationships

Movements1

Harlem Renaissance

Collections6

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum of American Art Heritage Auctions

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Market

Auction sale history

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Heritage Auctions

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Committed to Print

New York · 1988