Elizabeth Catlett

..and a special fear for my loved ones

1946, printed 1989

A Black man lies on the ground with a rope around his neck, while the feet of three unseen figures appear at the top of the frame, standing on the rope.
A Black man lies on the ground with a rope around his neck, while the feet of three unseen figures appear at the top of the frame, standing on the rope.

Recto

Not on view

Date
1946, printed 1989

Classification
Prints

Medium
Linoleum cut

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 × 7 9/16 in. (25.4 × 19.2 cm) Image (Irregular): 8 3/8 × 6 1/16 in. (21.3 × 15.4 cm)

Accession number
95.202

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

Edition
12/20 | 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
artworks/10152






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