Artist Monograph

Elizabeth Catlett, American

American and Mexican, 1915–2012

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Other Media	21	95.5%
Lithography	1	4.5%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	21	95.5%
Painting & Sculpture	1	4.5%

Production by Decade

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

Classification Types

Print — 20
Installation — 1
Illustrated Book — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	16	76.2%
Medium (30–100 cm)	5	23.8%

Range: 13.0 cm → 95.5 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1988	1
1991	1
1994	1
1995	1
1996	1
2003	1
2011	1
2021	15

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 22 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
I Am The Black Woman from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.1	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 5 1/8 × 3 7/8" (13 × 9.8 cm); sheet: 10 × 8" (25.4 × 20.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
I Have Always Worked Hard in America from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.2	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image (irreg.): 8 11/16 × 5 7/8" (22 × 14.9 cm); sheet: 15 × 11" (38.1 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
I Have Special Reservations Print Acc. 241.1991	1946	Linoleum cut	composition (irreg.): 6 5/16 × 6 1/4" (16.1 × 15.8 cm); sheet: 13 3/4 × 10" (35 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Leslie J. Garfield Fund
I Have Special Reservations from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.11	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 6 3/8 × 6 1/4" (16.2 × 15.9 cm); sheet: 15 × 11" (38.1 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
In Harriet Tubman I Helped Hundreds to Freedom from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.7	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 9 1/16 × 6 7/8" (23 × 17.5 cm); sheet: 15 × 11" (38.1 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
In Other Folks’ Homes… from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.4	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 6 3/8 × 2 1/8" (16.2 × 5.4 cm); sheet: 10 × 8 1/8" (25.4 × 20.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
In Phillis Wheatley I Proved Intellectual Equality in the Midst of Slavery from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.8	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 9 × 6" (22.9 × 15.2 cm); sheet: 15 × 11" (38.1 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
In Sojourner Truth I Fought for the Rights of Women as Well as Blacks from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.6	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 8 7/8 × 5 7/8" (22.5 × 15 cm); sheet: 15 × 11" (38.1 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
In the Fields… from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.3	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 9 × 6 1/8" (22.9 × 15.6 cm); sheet: 15 1/8 × 11" (38.4 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
My Role Has Been Important in the Struggle to Organize the Unorganized from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.9	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 6 × 9" (15.2 × 22.9 cm); sheet: 11 × 15" (27.9 × 38.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
Special Houses… from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.12	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 4 1/8 × 5 7/8" (10.5 × 14.9 cm); sheet: 7 7/8 × 10" (20 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
The Black Woman (previously titled The Negro Woman) Print Acc. 351.2021.1-14	1946-47, printed 1989	Series of fourteen linoleum cuts	dimensions vary. see child records. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
There Are Bars Between Me and the Rest of the Land from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.10	1946, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 4 1/2 × 5 7/8" (11.4 × 14.9 cm); sheet: 7 7/8 × 10" (20 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
And a Special Fear for My Loved Ones from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.13	1947, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 8 1/4 × 6" (21 × 15.2 cm); sheet: 15 × 11" (38.1 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
I Have Given the World My Songs from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.5	1947, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 7 3/8 × 6 15/16" (18.7 × 17.7 cm); sheet: 9 7/8 × 7" (25.1 × 17.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
My Right Is a Future of Equality with Other Americans from the series The Black Woman Print Acc. 351.2021.14	1947, printed 1989	Linoleum cut from a series of fourteen linoleum cuts	image: 9 × 6" (22.9 × 15.2 cm); sheet: 15 × 11" (38.1 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Erin and Peter Hess Friedland, and Modern Women's Fund
Sharecropper Print Acc. 162.2003	1952, published 1968–70	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) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Ralph E. Shikes Fund and Purchase
Mother and Child Installation Acc. 219.2011	1956	Terra cotta	11 1/4 x 7 x 7" (28.6 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, The Modern Women's Fund, and Dr. Alfred Gold (by exchange)
Malcolm X Speaks for Us Print Acc. 332.1988	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) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Harriet Print Acc. 545.1994	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) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Ralph E. Shikes Fund
Central America Says No! Print Acc. 706.1995	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) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Ralph E. Shikes Fund
For My People Illustrated Book Acc. 713.1996.1-6	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) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Ralph E. Shikes Fund and The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art