Negro Woman (2) by Elizabeth Catlett

Title: Negro Woman (2) by Elizabeth Catlett
Date: 1956
Creator: Elizabeth Catlett, 1915-2012 See all items with this value
Contributor: Atlanta Annuals
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; Sculpture
Location: Atlanta; Fulton County; Georgia; USA
Type: Sculpture
Medium: Wood
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

Item sets: Art; HBCU Art: No Less Lovely Being Dark; Portraits and Busts in the Atlanta University Annuals Collection; Clark Atlanta University Collections