Survivor
Artist:
Elizabeth Catlett
(American, 1915 - 2012)
Date: 1983
Medium: Linocut on paper
Dimensions:
image: 9 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (23.5 x 18.7 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, in memory of TSGT Wilbor Watson, USAF, Retired and Mrs. Lula Bell Watson
Object number: 2004.4
Signed: Signed and dated in pencil, lower right: E. Catlett '83
Inscribed: Titled and numbered under image, lower left: Survivor 960/1000
Label Text
I have always wanted my art to service my people—to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential….
—Elizabeth Catlett
A striking image, Survivor is based on a photograph of a formerly enslaved woman from Alabama captured by photographer Dorothea Lange while she was documenting the rural South during the Great Depression. With bold, hard-edged lines and sharp contrasts of black and white, Catlett creates a heroic portrait of an anonymous woman that evokes strength and dignity in face of hardships still suffered by People of Color and those in poverty.
(Lana Meador, 2019)
—Elizabeth Catlett
A striking image, Survivor is based on a photograph of a formerly enslaved woman from Alabama captured by photographer Dorothea Lange while she was documenting the rural South during the Great Depression. With bold, hard-edged lines and sharp contrasts of black and white, Catlett creates a heroic portrait of an anonymous woman that evokes strength and dignity in face of hardships still suffered by People of Color and those in poverty.
(Lana Meador, 2019)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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