Born Washington, DC
Lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and New York City
Education
1955, 1947-48
Studied wood carving with Jose L. Ruiz and ceramic sculpture with Francisco Zuniga, Escuela de Pintura y Escultura, Esmeralda, Mexico
1943
Studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine, NY
1942-43
Studied lithography at Art Students League, New York
1941
Studied ceramics, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1940
MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1935
BS, cum laude, Howard University School of Art, Washington, DC
Solo Exhibitions
2006
For My People: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ; catalogue
The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: Selections from the Hampton University Collection, Hampton University, VA
2005
Elizabeth Catlett: Prints 1946 – Present, from the Reverend Douglas E. Moore Collection and the Catlett Collection, co-sponsored by The Southern Graphics Council and The Arts Club of Washington, Monroe Gallery, The Arts Club of Washington, DC
2002
Elizabeth Catlett: Prints and Sculptures, curated by Jane Glaubinger, The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Elizabeth Catlett: Recent Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture and Prints, Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Hghts, OH
1999
Elizabeth Catlett: Living: Legend, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; monograph essays by Michael Brenson, Ph.D. and Lowery Stokes Sims, Ph.D.; traveling exhibition
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Elizabeth Catlett: Prints & Drawings, Sragow Gallery, New York
1996
Prints from Mexico, curated by Jerald R. Green, Queens College Art Center, Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Flushing, NY
struggle and serenity: The Visionary Art of Elizabeth Catlett, curated by Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, The Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute, New York; catalogue
In Rare Form, guest curator, June Lambla; essay by Melanie Herzog, Ph.D.;Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC; catalogue
Solo Exhibitions
1994
In the Hemisphere of Love: Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora, Isobel Neal Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993
Sculpture, catalogue essay by Lowery Stokes Sims, June Kelly Gallery, New York
The Elizabeth Catlett Exhibition, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Elizabeth Catlett: Works on Paper, 1944-1992, essays by Dr. Samella S. Lewis and Dr. Richard J. Powell, organized by Hampton University Museum, VA; traveling exhibition
1990-92
A Courtyard Apart: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora, catalogue essay by Dr. Floyd Coleman, introduction by Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; traveling exhibition
1991
African American Women Artists: Elizabeth Catlett and Lois Mailou Jones, The Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Joint Exhibition with Francisco Mora, Montgomery Museum of Art, AL
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture and Prints, Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH
Pelloon Gallery, Washington, DC
Sculpture and Print Exhibition, Columbus Museum of Art, OH, curated by Ernestine Brown of the Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH
1990
Junior Black Academy Gallery, Dallas, TX
1989
Elizabeth Catlett: Print Retrospective, Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY
1987
Cervantino Festival, Museo Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture/ Francisco Mora: Watercolors, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
1986
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
1985
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
Norfolk State University, VA
1984
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
University of Mississippi, University, MS
Howard University, Washington, DC
African American Museum, Dallas, TX
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Kilcauley Center, Youngstown State University, OH
Southeast Arkansas Art & Science Center, Pine Bluff, AK
Main Public Library, Miami, FL
1983
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
1982
The Gallery Tanner, Los Angeles, CA
1981
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture and Prints, Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH
Elizabeth Catlett and Lynd Ward, Tobey Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
1980
Chi-Wara Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1979
Your Heritage House, Detroit, MI
Pyramid Gallery, Detroit, MI
Main Public Library, Las Vegas, NE
1978
Elizabeth Catlett, Nexus Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Alabama A&M University, AL; traveling exhibition
1975
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1974
Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA
1973
An Exhibition of Sculpture and Prints by Elizabeth Catlett, Jackson State University, MS; introduction by Margaret Walker Alexander
Elizabeth Catlett: An Exhibition of Sculpture and Prints, Carl Van Vechten Gallery, Fisk University, Nashville, TN
1972
Rainbow Sign Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Atlanta Center for Black Art, GA
Sculpture and Prints, National Center of Afro-American Artists, Dorchester, MA
Sculpture and Prints, Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC
1971
Elizabeth Catlett, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; foreword by Elton C. Fax
Sculpture and Prints, Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1970
Elizabeth Catlett: The Black Experience/Experiencia Negra, Modern Art Museum, Mexico City
1962
Sculpture and Prints, Gallery, National School of Fine Arts (San Carlos), Mexico City
1947-48
Paintings, Sculptures and Prints of the Negro Woman by Elizabeth Catlett, The Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, DC; catalogue
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Women Artists of Modern Mexico: Frida’s Contemporaries, co-curated by Tomas Zurian and Dolores Mercado, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; catalogue
AGENTS of Change: Women, Art and Intellect, curated by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, Ceres Gallery; catalogue
2006-08
Women Only! In Their Studios, organizer and curator Eleanor Flomenhaft, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; travelling exhibition, catalogue
2004
Creating Their Own Image: A History of African-American Women Artists, curated by Dr. Lisa Farrington, Aronson Galleries, NY
ANIMA of the African Diaspora: The Feminine Presence, Clark Atlanta Unviersity Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004
Hearing Voices: Personal Narratives, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
2003
Romare Bearden Elizabet Catlett Jacob Lawrence,Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
According with Nadelman: Contemporary Affinities, curated by Cynthia Nadelman, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2002
Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora, Prints and Paintings, curated by Martha Kearns, Payne College, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
2001
Elizabeth Catlett & Francisco Mora, Macalester College Art Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2000
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York; traveling exhibition
African-American Art at 2000, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Rivers of Spirit: Art Women in the African Diaspora, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by 60 Women, curated by Judith E. Stein, DC Moore Gallery, New York
1999-2001
To Conserve A Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, co-organized by The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1996
Civil Progress: Images of Black America, Mary Ryan Gallery, NewYork
In the Spirit of Resistance: African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School, curated by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins and organized by The American Federation of Arts in association with The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York and The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
From Rearguard to Vanguard: Selections from Clarke Atlanta University Collection of African-American Art, organized by The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad in collaboration with Clarke Atlanta University Art Gallery, GA
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, organized by Deborah Wye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
3 Generations of African-American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA; traveling exhibition; catalogue essays by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond and Dr. Tritobia Benjamin
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Inaugural exhibition, Atlanta, GA; curated by Dr. Jontyle Robinson; catalogue essays by Tritobia Benjamin, Akua McDaniel, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Lowery Stokes Sims, Judith Wilson and Jontyle Robinson; traveling exhibition, venues include Fort
Selected Group Exhibitions
1996
Wayne Museum of Art, IN; Polk Museum for Art, Lakeland, FL; The Columbus Museum, GA; African American Museum, Dallas, TX;
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN and the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
1995
African-American Printmaking: 1838 to the Present, Rockland Center of the Arts, West Nyack, NY; curated by Lena Hyun and Cynthia Hawkins; essay by Harry Henderson; a project of Rockland Community College, State University
of New York, Suffern, NY
The Listening Sky: An Inaugural Exhibition of The Studio Museum in Harlem Sculpture Garden, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the ‘90s, Part I: Gender Issues, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY; guest curator, Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
20th Century American Sculpture at the White House, curated by Townsend Wolfe and organized by the Committee for Preservation of The White House and the Association of Art Museum Directors, First Lady’s Garden, Washington, DC
1993
Terms of Endurance: A Visual and Literary Commentary by African American Artists Who Have Endured The Odds, The Amistead Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
The 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Recent Acquisitions and Selected Works from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Free Within Ourselves: African-American Art from the National Museum of American Art, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York; traveling exhibition organized by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Significant Others: Artist Wives of Artists, Kraushaar Galleries, New York
1992
Alone in A Crowd-Prints of the 1930s-40s African American Artists, from the collection of Reba and Dave Williams in conjunction with the Newark Museum, NJ; traveling exhibition
1989
African-American Artists 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC
Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
1988
Committed to Print, curated by Deborah Wye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985-88
Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, organized by the Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, and the Art Museum Association of American; traveling exhibition
Selected Group Exhibitions
1985
Art in Washington and Its Afro-American Presence: 1940-1970; catalogue essay by Keith Morrison, Washington Project for the Arts
1984
Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art, organized by The Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; traveled to The Amelie A. Wallace Art Gallery, The State University of New York, College at Westbury; Museum of Art, The Munson-Williams-Procter Institute, Utica, NY; The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State Museum, University Park, PA
1981
Forever Free: Art by African-American Women 1862-1980, Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; traveling exhibition
1976
Two Centuries of Black American Art, organized by Museum Associates of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; traveling exhibition
20th Century Black Artists, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora, The Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975
Amistad II: Afro-American Exhibition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; traveling exhibition
1974
The Barnett-Aden Collection, organized by the District of Columbia Art Association, Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Washington, DC; essay by Edmund B. Gaither
1973
Francisco Mora and Elizabeth Catlett, Altes Schloss der Prinzen von Sachsen, Dresden, Germany
1970
Elizabeth Catlett: Museo de Arte Moderno, catalogue essay by Raquel Tibol, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City
1968
Cultural Program of the XIX Olympics; Stone Carving Exhibition, Solar Exhibition and the Olympic Villa Exhibition, Mexico City
1967
The Evolution of Afro-American Artists, 1800 to 1950, essay by Carroll Green, Jr. City College of New York
1963
Emancipation Proclamation Centennial National Exhibition, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA
1951
Tenth Anniversary of Exhibitions of Paintings, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists, Atlanta University, GA
1945
The Negro Artist Comes of Age, A National Survey of Contemporary American Artists, Albany Institute of History and Art, NY; traveling exhibition
1941
American Negro Art from the 19th and 20th Centuries, Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery, New York
1940
The Art of the American Negro (1851-1940), Tanner Art Galleries, Chicago, IL
1939
Contemporary Negro Art, foreword by Alain Locke, The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Selected Awards And Prizes
2007
Circle of Art Honoree, Nubian Women’s Art Circle,Inc., NY
2006
Alumni Fellow, The University of Iowa Alumi FellowsProgram, Iowa City, IO
80th Anniversary Africana Heritage Award, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
Honorary Doctorate, Atlanta College of Arts, GA
Honorary Doctorate, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
2005
Art Institute of Chicago Legends and Legacy Award, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2003
Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ
2002
Honoracy Doctorate of Fine Arts, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
1999
Inaugural Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts, The Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Art Fund, Inc.
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1996
Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IO
Arts Award, The Links, Inc. National Congress, New Orleans, LA
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IO
Honorary Doctorate, Howard University, Washington, DC
1995
Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote. The Sadie (Delany)....Award, given by Camille O. Cosby and Judith Rutherford James, Booth Theater, New York
1995
Celebration of the Creative Spirit Award, Black Alumni of Pratt Scholarship Fund, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Newcombe College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York
1994
Civil Rights Award, “Woman Making A Difference,” Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., St. Louis, MO
1993
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
1991
Candace Award for Art, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, New York
Artist of the Year, New York City Art Teachers Association, UFT
1990
Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA; Arts Award
1987
National Sculpture Conference: Works by Women, Cincinnati, OH; Honoree
1985
Purchase Prize for Drawing, Salon de la Plastica Mexicana, Mexico; Drawing
1983
James Van Der Zee Award, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1981
National Women's Caucus for Art Conference, San Francisco, CA; Honor Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts
Selected Awards And Prizes
1977
Howard University, Washington, DC; Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement in Sculpture and Creative Arts
1971
Grant from the British Council to visit art schools in Great Britain
1969
National Print Salon, Mexico; First Purchase Prize for “Malcolm X Speaks for Us,” purchased by National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico
1965
Atlanta University Annual, GA; First Prize in Sculpture for “Bather”
1964
Second Sculpture Biennial, Mexico; Xipe Totec Prize for “Mujer”
1963
Second Latin American Print Exhibition, Havana, Cuba; Honorable Mention
1962
First Sculpture Biennial, Mexico; Tlatilco Prize for “Figura”
1956
Atlanta University Annual, GA; Second Prize in Sculpture for “Negro Woman”
1946
Atlanta University National Exhibition, Atlanta, GA; Second Prize in Sculpture
1945- 47
Grants from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation
1941
American Negro Exposition, Chicago, IL; First Prize in Sculpture, “Negro Mother and Child”
Public Commissions
2003
Offering Education, Offering Life, and Rejecting Injustice: 3 bronze sculptures CarrAmerica Urban Development, LLC, Washington, DC
2002
Invisible Man, 10 x 15 ft., bronze, Riverside Park Fund, New York
2000
Stepping Out, The Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Art Fund, Inc.
1995-96
Floating Family, 10. ft., carved primavera wood, Legler Branch, Chicago Public Library, IL
1992
For My People, by Margaret Walker, six lithographs, The Limited Editions
Club, New York
1989-91
People of Atlanta, bronze bas-relief, 36 x 10 feet, Atlanta City Hall, GA 1986 Bronze sculpture, Associated Black Charities, New York
1985
Bronze sculpture, National Council of Negro Women, New York
1981
Two life-sized bronzes of James Torresy, Bodet and José Vasconcelos, Secretary of Education, Mexico City
1978
Students Aspire, 24-ft, bronze relief, Chemical Engineering Building, Howard University, Washington, DC;
1975-76
Bicentennial Celebration, New Orleans, LA; 10-ft bronze sculpture of Louis Armstrong for the City of New Orleans (Louis Armstrong Park)
1973
Bronze life-sized bust of Phillis Wheatley, Jackson State University, MS
1966
Olmec Bather, 10-ft bronze, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City
Teaching And Administration
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Artist-in-Residence, 1990
Scripps College, Claremont, CA; Seminar/Instructor, 1980
Howard University, Washington, DC; Workshop/Seminar, 1977
Escuela Nacional de Arts Plasticas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México;
Professor of Sculpture, 1958-76; Head of Sculpture Department, 1959-76
George Washington Carver School, NY; Instructor/Promotions Director, 1944-45
Hampton Institute, VA; Instructor, 1943
Dillard University, New Orleans, LA; Instructor/Department Head, 1940-42
Prairie View College, TX; Instructor, 1940
Board of Education, Durham, NC; Art Instructor/Supervisor, 1936-37
Selected Bibliography
Books
Herzog, Melanie, My Art Speaks for Both My Peoples: Elizabeth Catlett in Mexico,
Ph.D., dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1995
Bearden, Romare and Harry Henderson, A History of African-American Artists:
From 1792 to the Present, New York, Pantheon Books, 1993
Igoe, Lynn Moody, 250 Years of Afro-American Art: An Annotated Bibliography,
New York and London, R. R. Bowker Company, 1981
Lewis, Samella, The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Claremont, CA, Hancraft Studios, 1984
Rubinstein, Charlotte, American Women Artists, Boston, G.K. Hall and Company, 1982
Lewis, Samella, Art: African American, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978
Lewis, Samella and Ruth Waddy, Black Artists on Art, Vol. 2, Los Angeles,
Contemporary Crafts, 1971
Fax, Elton C., Seventeen Black Artists, New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1971
Scharz, Walker, Directory of Afro-American Resources, New York, R.R. Bowker Company, 1970, The Negro Handbook, Chicago, Johnson Publishing, 1966
Clarke, John Henrik, rev. ed., Harlem, USA, New York, Macmillan, 1964
Dover, Cedric, American Negro Art, London, Studio Books, 1960
Haab Armin, Mexican Graphic Art, Switzerland, Arthur Niggli, Ltd., 1957
Fryd, Norbert, Mexicka Grafika, Prague, 1955
Meyer, Hannes, ed., TGP México: Doce Años de Obra Artística Collectiva, Mexico City,
La Estampa Mexicana, 1949
Porter, James, Modern Negro Art, New York, Dryden Press, 1943
Locke, Alain, The Negro in Art, New York, Hacker Art Books, 1940
Selected Bibliography
Catalogues
The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits By Sixty Women, essay by
Judith E. Stein, DC Moore Gallery, New York, 2000
Beyond the Veil: Art of African American Artists at Century’s End, catalogue essay by Mary
Jane Hewitt, Ph.D., Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture: A Fifty-Year Retrospective with essays by Michael Brenson and Lowery Stokes Sims, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, New York, 1998
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, Spelman
College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, Spelman College and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1996
In Rare Form, essay by Melanie Herzog, Ph.D., Afro-American Culture Center,
Charlotte, NC, 1996
Struggle and Serenity: The Visionary Art of Elizabeth Catlett, essays by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd and Dr. Floyd Coleman, The Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institue, New York, 1996
Sims, Lowery Stokes, Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York, 1993
Britton, Crystal, Elizabeth Catlett, Chi-Wara Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1980
Bontemps, Arna Alexander, Jacqueline Fonvielle-Bontemps and David C. Driskell, Forever
Free: Art by African-American Women, 1862-1980, Alexandria, VA, Stephenson, 1980
Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture and Graphics 1946-1979, Your Heritage House, Detroit, MI, 1979
Love, Josephine, Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture and Graphics 1946-1979, Pyramid Gallery of
Art and Your Heritage House, Detroit, MI, 1979
Elizabeth Catlett, Nexus Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 1978
Driskell, David C., Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1976
Gaither, Edmund B., The Barnett-Aden Collection, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1974
Driskell, David C., and Fred F. Bonds, An Exhibition of Sculptures and Prints by Elizabeth
Catlett, Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Fine Art, Fisk University, Nashville, TN, 1973
Alexander, Margaret Walker, Elizabeth Catlett, Jackson State University, MS, 1973
Fax, Elton, and Jeff Donaldson, Elizabeth Catlett, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1971
Tielett, Jehanne, Dimensions of Black, La Jolla Museum of Art, CA, 1970
Tibol, Raquel, Elizabeth Catlett: Museo de Arte Moderno, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, 1970
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Afro-American Women in Art, Greensboro, NC, 1969
Green, Carroll, Jr. and Romare Bearden, The Evolution of Afro-American Artists, 1800-1950, City College of New York, 1967
Emancipation Proclamation Centennial National Exhibition, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA, 1963
Selected Bibliography
Catalogues
Paintings, Sculptures and Prints of the Negro Woman by Elizabeth Catlett, foreword by Gwendolyn Bennett, The Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, DC, 1947-48
The Negro Artist Comes of Age, A National Survey of Contemporary American Artists Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, 1945
Tanner Art Galleries, The Art of the American Negro (1851-1940), Chicago, IL, 1940
Selected Bibliography
Periodicals/Reviews
Genocchio, Benjamin, “Unsung, a 91-Year Old Artist Come Back Home,” The New York Times, Sunday, May 7, 2006
Bischoff, Dan, “An artist who’s still in rare form,” The Sunday Star-Ledger, Section Four, April 9, 2006, p. 3
Delo, Cotton, “Sculpting Her Sisters: Artist celebrates 70 years of work with NJCU exhibit, Jersey Journal, Friday, April 7, 2006, p. 29
Norment Lynn, “Elizabeth Catlett: Legendary Artist Is Still Creating and Living Life On Her Own Terms,” Ebony Magazine, March 2006, pp.100-104
West, Cassandra, “Social justice shapes artist’s work,” Womannews, Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, November 9, 2005, p.1 & p.7
Plett, Nicole, “Hearing Voices,” U.S. 1, Princeton, March 31, 2004, pp.30-31
Purcell, Janet, “Hearing Voices,” The Times, Trenton, February 27, 2004, p.63
Florman, Jean C., “Her Vision, Her Way,” The University of Iowa: Arts & Sciences,” pp.7-9, fall
Dawson, Jessica, “Bearden’s Contemporaries, Shining in His Shadow,” The Washington Post, Thursday, September 25, 2003
Naves, Mario, “A Collection of Oddities: Nadelman’s Quirky Kin,” New York Observer, July 24, 2003
Delaney, Yvonne Annette, “Ralph Ellison Memorial Unveiled,” The New York Amsterdam News, May 8-May 14, 2003, p.3 & p.35
Gladstone, Valerie, “An Artist for her People: Elizabeth Catlett Gets Her Due,” winter 2003, Volume 8/Number 4, pp. 62-68
Litt, Steven, “A passion fueled by principles,” The Plain Dealer, October 7, 2002
Tranberg, Dan, A Distinctive voice,” The Plain Dealer, September 19, 2002
Fulwood, Sam, “Artist aims to put truth in her work,” The Plain Dealer, September 26, 2002
Kugel, Seth, ARTtalk, “Visible Man,” ARTnews, September 2002, p.36
Gladstone, Valerie, “Strong Enough to Keep On Till She Got Her Due,” The New York Times, Sunday, April 8, 2002
Selected Bibliography
Periodicals/Reviews
Youens, Rachel, “The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by 60 Women,” NY Arts, January 2000, Vol. 5, No. 1
Glueck, Grace, “ The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by 60 Women, The New York Times, Friday, January 20, 2000
Korotkin, Joyce B., “The Likeness of Being,” The New York Art World, February 2000
George, Lynell, “Art of Perserverance,” Los Angeles Times Syndicate, published in the Greenwich Time, Sunday, July 25, 1999
Pacheco, Patricia, “ School Masters,” Newsday, FanFare section, Sunday Juen 13, 1999, pp.D18-D20
Kearns, Martha, “Elizabeth Catlett: The Spirit of Form,” Sculpture Magazine, March 1999
Sidime, Aissatou, “Lifting the Veil: The Zora Neale Hurston festival features an exhibit of works by America’s leading black artists,” BayLife: The Tampa Tribune, Friday, January 22, 1999
Bishop, Philip E., “ ‘Beyond the Veil’: Vibrant exhibit is a showcase of outstanding works,”
The Orlando Sentinel/Arts & Entertainment, Sunday, January 24, 1999
Story, Kendra, “Elizabeth Catlett: A Legend of Her Craft,” Upscale Magazine, December/January 1999
Goodman, Jonathan, “New York & Purchase: Elizabeth Catlett at June Kelly and the Neuberger Museum,” Art In America, September 1998
Raynor, Vivien, “50-Year Retrospective Of Sculptor’s Work,” The New York Times(Westchester), Sunday, May 31, 1998
Cohen, Mark Daniel, “Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture, A Fifty-Year Retrospective at The Neuberger Museum of Art/Purchase,” Art New England, June/July 1998
Johnson, Ken, “Affirming Her Identity In Quietly Heroic Forms,” The New York Times, Friday, April 3, 1998
Smith, Roberta, “Medium Whose Bite Has Grown With Age,” The New York Times, Friday, June 21, 1996
Patterson, Tom, “Catlett, Logan make ‘In Rare Form’ A Strong Statement,” The Charlotte Observer, Sunday, February 11, 1996
Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, April 15, 1994
Little, Carl, Art in America, November 1993
Wilkin, Karen, Partisan Review, Summer 1993, pp. 464-465
Herzog, Melanie, “Art and Identity: Elizabeth Catlett,” School Arts, December 1992
Stokes Oliver, Stephanie, “Lifestyle: Elizabeth Catlett,” Essence, Vol.16, No.2, June 1985
Bacon, Joe, “Elizabeth Catlett: Just This Side of Formidable,” New Orleans, February 1984, pp. 42-43
Fuller, Margaret, “Portrait in Pride: Dignity of Subject, Artist Catlett’s Main Concern,”
The Times Picayune/ The State Item(New Orleans), September 19, 1983, pp. 3-4
Selected Bibliography
Periodicals/Reviews
Gouma-Peterson, Thalia, “Elizabeth Catlett: The Power of Human Feeling of Art,”Women’s Art Journal, Spring/Summer 1983, pp. 48-56
Goldman, Shifra, “Six Women Artists in Mexico,” Women’s Art Journal, February 1982
Lewis, Samella, “Elizabeth Catlett,” Black Art: An International Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1976
Catlett, Elizabeth, “The Role of the Black Artist,” The Black Scholar, Vol. 6, No. 9, June 1975
Kearns, Martha, “The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: Book Review,” Ms., Vol. 3, No. 10, April 1975
Marquez Rodiles, Ignacio, “Betty Catlett: Artista de un Mundo Anhelante,” El Sol de Mexico, March 9, 1975
Shaw, Sharon, “Elizabeth Catlett Mora: Making Art Like the Blues,” Tuesday at Home,
Supplement to Washington Star-News, Vol. 4, No. 9, December 1974, pp. 6-7, 14
Craft, Mona,“Lady Encore, Elizabeth Catlett,” Encore, February 1973, p. 46
“The Art of Elizabeth Catlett,” World Magazine, November 6, 1971, M-12
Crawford, Marc, “Elizabeth Catlett: The Mexican Woman,” Gente, April 16, 1970
Crawford, Marc, “My Art Speaks for Both My People,” Ebony, Vol. 25, January 1970, pp.94-101 Green, Carroll, Jr., “Perspective: The Black Artist in America,” Art Gallery, April 1970
Tibol, Raquel, “La Experiencia Negra de Elizabeth Catlett,” Oposicion, August 15, 1970
Green, Carroll, Jr., “Afro-American Artists: Yesterday and Now,” The Humble Way, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1968
Pierre-Noel, Lois Jones, “American Negro Art in Progress,” Negro History Bulletin, October 1967, pp. 6-9
Morrison, Allan, “Women in the Arts,” Ebony, August 1966, pp. 90-94
Fax, Elton C., “Four Rebels in Art,” Freedomways, Spring 1964, pp. 215-225
Durand de la Cuesta, Mario, “Elizabeth Catlett, Outstanding Sculptor of Our Epoch,” Nosotros, July 30, 1962
Catlett, Elizabeth, “A Tribute to the Negro People,” American Contemporary Art, Winter 1946, p. 17
“The Negro Artist Comes of Age,” Art News, February 1, 1945
Catlett, Elizabeth, “The Negro Artist in America,” American Contemporary Art, 1, 2, April 1944, pp. 4-6
“Negro in Art,” Art Digest, June 1, 1944, p.15
Herring, James V., “The Negro Sculptor,” Crisis, Vol. 49, 8, August 1942, pp. 261-262
American Negro Art given Full Length Review in New York Show,” Art Digest 16, December 15, 1941, p.16
“Negro in Art,” Art News, 40, 17, December 15-31, 1941
Catlett, Elizabeth, “A Tribute to the Negro People,” American Contemporary Art, Winter 1940, p.17
Selected Bibliography
Film and Video
Reading, Lee and Gretchen O’Reilly, African American Art: Past and Present, Part 2, 20th
Century Fine Art Survey, Reading & O’Reilly, Inc., Wilton Programs, Wilton, CT, 1992
Mora, Juan, E.C.: The Work of Elizabeth Catlett, Elizabeth Catlett Productions, Inc., Third World Newsreel, New York, 1978
Selected Bibliography
Doctoral Dissertations
Herzog, Melanie, My Art Speaks for Both My Peoples: Elizabeth Catlett in Mexico, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., 1995
Jones Gregory, Patricia, Elizabeth Catlett: A Paradigm of Collective Consciousness in African American Art: A Multicultural Curriculum Resource, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, Ed.D., 1994
Selected Bibliography
Portfolios
“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” by James Weldon Johnson, illustrations by Elizabeth Catlett, New York, Walker and Company, 1993
“Elizabeth Catlett,” Five lithographs, Mexico, 1974
“Black Artists in America,” Horace Mann Lincoln Institute, Columbia University, New York, 1972
“Elizabeth Catlett,” Six lithographs, Multi-Cultural Productions, Contemporary Crafts, Inc., Los Angeles, 1972
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Selected Public Collections
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Musuem of Art, PA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
The Columbus Museum of Art, OH
The DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Narodniko Musea (National Museum), Prague, Czechoslovakia
Atlanta University, GA
Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Hampton University, VA
Howard University, Washington, DC
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
The Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IO
York College, The City University of New York, Jamaica, NY
Instituto National de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, Los Angeles, CA
Membership
National Academy of Design, New York