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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.76
People
Elizabeth Catlett, American (Washington, DC 1915 - 2012 Cuernavaca, Mexico)
Printed by Taller de Grafica Popular
Title
Portrait of a Woman (Cabeza de Negra)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1948
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312583

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1320, Modern and Contemporary Art, Social Realism
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 56.5 x 43.5 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 69.5 x 47 cm (27 3/8 x 18 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lower right in graphite pencil: ECatlett
  • label: verso : Elizabeth Catlett / "Cabeza" de Negra / Litografia [illegible] / Taller de Grafica Popular
  • inscription:
  • label: verso: Institut[illegible]nal de Bellas Artes - Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno / Oficina de Registro de Obras / Mexico / Autor Elizabeth Catlett 1919 / Titulo "Cabeza de Negra" / Tecnica Litografia / Medidas 56.5 x 43.5 / Pintado (Fecha) / Coleccion Del Autor.
  • inscription: verso LL in graphite (inscription revealed after paper adhesive label was removed in conservation lab): Elizabeth Catlett / Cabeza / $150.00

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
5/20

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Elizabeth Catlett / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.76
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dalila Scruggs, ed., Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and The Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press (Washington, New York, Chicago, 2024), p. 183 ill. fig. 5 (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/14/2025 - 06/30/2025

Subjects and Contexts

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