...and a special fear for my loved ones from I am the Negro Woman series, linoleum cut; first edition (proofs)1946-47, second edition of 20, 1989. Signed, dated ‘47, titled, and numbered 3/20 in pencil; this impression from the series of 14 linoleum cuts printed at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop and retitled I am the Black Woman. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy cream wove paper, with full margins (2 3/8 to 3 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Very scarce. Image size 8 5/8 x 6 inches; sheet size 14 1/4 x 11 1/8 inches.
Exhibition/Literature: Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People, National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 2007. Elizabeth Catlett - A Black Revolutionary Artist and All that It Implies, National Gallery of Art and the Brooklyn Museum (traveling exhibition), 2025.
Collections: Art Institute of Chicago (1989 imp.), National Gallery of Art (1847 imp.), National Museum of African American History (1989 imp.), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1989 imp.), Terra Foundation for American Art (1989 imp.), Whitney Museum of American Art (1989 imp.), University of Iowa Museum of Art (1989 imp.).
