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ID: 500011840
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500011840
 
Record Type: Person
Catlett, Elizabeth (American sculptor and printmaker, 1915-2012)

Note: The African-American sculptor, painter, and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett was born in Washington, D.C. She attended Howard University and the University of Iowa. In 1946 she received a Rosenfeld Fellowship to travel to Mexicio with her husband, the artist Charles White. She has since remained in Mexico. Her work reflects her interest in African art and social issues in the United States and Mexico.

Names:
Catlett, Elizabeth (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Elizabeth Catlett (V,display)
Mora, Elizabeth Catlett (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American
Mexican

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
printmaker
teacher
educator
graphic artist
painter

Gender: female

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Washington (DC, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1946  Mexico (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
spouse of ....  White, Charles  
................  (American painter, printmaker, 1918-1979) [500115749]
student of ....  Wood, Grant  
..................  (American painter and printmaker, 1891-1942) [500031056]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Catlett, Elizabeth (I)

Biographies:
(American sculptor and printmaker, 1915-2012) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American sculptor, printmaker in MEX, b.1919) ..... [BHA]
(Mexican artist, 1919-) ..... [WCP]
(S.& C.American(Mexican) artist, born 1919) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(African American sculptor) ..... [Grove Art]
(American sculptor, printmaker, and teacher, 1915-2012) ..... [NMWA]
(American and Mexican artist, 1915-2012) ..... [MoMA]
(American sculptor, 1915-2012) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Catlett, Elizabeth ........ [BHA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, NMWA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
......................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
......................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
......................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 1037
......................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
......................................  National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
......................................  NMWA database (2018-)
......................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 15948
......................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Elizabeth Catlett ........ [MoMA, VP]
....................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Mora, Elizabeth Catlett ........ [BHA]
...............................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, Grove Art, MoMA, NMWA, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-) http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/1037
....................  askART (2000-) "Elizabeth Catlett." Accessed 04/15/04
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Cederholm, Afro-American artists (1973)
....................  Clark Art Institute, Photos and Slides Department (n.d.)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n84229535
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 1037
....................  Goldman, Six Woman Artists, Woman's Art Journal (1982-1983)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 23 September 2003
....................  International Directory of Exhibiting Artists (1982-) 1982
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n84229535
....................  NMWA database (2018-)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 15948
....................  Two centuries of Black American art (1976) p.178
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) 53104162
....................  Who's Who in American Art (1936-) 1978
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q290331
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 134-135
.......... Who Was Who In American Art (1999) 1:597
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