Elizabeth Catlett

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

1947, printed 1989

A Black person, composed of lines, looks beyond the barbed wire that crosses the foreground
A Black person, composed of lines, looks beyond the barbed wire that crosses the foreground

Elizabeth Catlett, My reward has been bars between me and the rest of the land, 1947, printed 1989. 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, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 95.197. © Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

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Date
1947, printed 1989

Classification
Prints

Medium
Linoleum cut

Dimensions
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)

Accession number
95.197

Series
The Negro Woman, 1946-47 (re-titled The Black Woman, 1989)

Edition
8/20 | Second print run

Publication
Printed by Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
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