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Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies

Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies

$65.00 at de Young Museum.

Catlett is a singular cultural figure of the global 1960s, and a new appreciation of her is tailor made for the current zeitgeist: between studying with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa and moving to Mexico, Catlett taught art at a HBCU in New Orleans--Dillard University--and spent her summers in Chicago, where she trained in ceramics at the School of the Art Institute and printmaking at the South Side Community Arts Center. She was briefly married in the 1940s to the painter Charles White, with whom she…