Elizabeth Catlett

Standing Strong, 2008
Patinated Bronze
311/5 x 101/4 x 91/5 inches
Edition 2/9, signed 'EC'

	1915	Born Washington, DC Lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and New York City
	2012	Died in Cuernavaca, Mexico, April 2
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, New York
	1942-43	Studied lithography at Art Students League, New York
	1941	Studied ceramics, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
	1940	MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
	1935	BS, cum laude, Howard University School of Art, Washington, DC
Selected Solo Exhibitions
	2019	Elizabeth Catlett: An Ardent Feminist, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2014	Remembering Elizabeth Catlett, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2009	Elizabeth Catlett: Recent Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York Six Decades: Drawing and Prints by Elizabeth Catlett, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA
	2007	Solitude and Solidarity: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Delta Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC
	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, 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: Recent Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York Elizabeth Catlett: Prints and Sculptures, curated by Jane Glaubinger, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; brochure Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH
	1999	Elizabeth Catlett: Living Legend, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA Elizabeth Catlett: Recent Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1998	Elizabeth Catlett Sculpture: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, traveling exhibition; monograph 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 In Rare Form, guest curator, June Lambla; essay by Melanie Herzog, Ph.D., Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
	1994	In the Hemisphere of Love: Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora, Isobel Neal Gallery, Chicago, IL
	1993	Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue The Elizabeth Catlett Exhibition from the Collection of Reverend Douglas E. Moore, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD Elizabeth Catlett: works on paper, 1944-1992, organized by Hampton University Museum, VA, traveling exhibition, essays by Dr. Samella S. Lewis and Dr. Richard J. Powell
	1990-92	A Courtyard Apart: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett and Francisco Mora, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, traveling exhibition; catalogue
	1990	Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Dallas, TX
	1991	African American Women Artists: Elizabeth Catlett and Lois Mailou Jones, Montclair Art Museum Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpture and Prints, Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH Sculpture and Print Exhibition, curated by Ernestine Brown, Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH, traveled to Columbus Museum of Art, OH
	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
Selected Public Collections
	Art Institute of Chicago, IL Baltimore Museum of Art, MD Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Cincinnati Art Museum, OH Columbus Museum of Art, OH DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI Museum of Modern Art, New York National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC New Orleans Museum of Art, LA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Smithsonian American Art Museum (National Museum of American Art), Washington, DC The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH The Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, The Walter O. Evans Art Center, GA The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Worcester Museum of Art, MA Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City Narodniko Musea (National Museum), Prague, Czechoslovakia Instituto National de Bellas Artes, Mexico City Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Atlanta, GA Fisk University, Nashville, TN Hampton University, VA Howard University, Washington, DC Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA University of Iowa, Iowa City, IO York College, The City University of New York, Jamaica, NY Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York The Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Library of Congress, Washington, DC