ELIZABETH CATLETT African American SCULPTURE BK SIGNED Start Price USD 800.00 Current Price USD 800.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 30, 2008 End Time Saturday, November 29, 2008 Location Los Angeles, CA See more about 'ELIZABETH CATLETT African American SCULPTURE BK SIGNED' Description E N T H U S I A S T We purchase American Artist Estates as well as American art libraries and our goal is to provide, through eBay, a constantly replenished veritable "candystore" of rare and out-of-print books and catalogs for the lover of American prints and paintings... The item you are bidding on is: ELIZABETH CATLETT Sculpture: A Fifty-Year Retrospective, Neuberger Museum of Art Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1999. Ed. by L. H. Gedeon. 120 pages, exhibition catalogue, 61 color plates, 46 b&w illustrations, exhib. checklist, biog., bibliog. Texts by Michael Brenson and Lowery Sims. Published to accompany the 1998 major retrospective of Catlett's work at the Neuberger Museum. Small oblong 4to, cloth hard cover with dust jacket. First edition. MINT condition in a MINT Dust Jacket. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. A great gift [for another or yourself!]. ********** See below for our COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNTS! PLEASE READ the description provided above carefully prior to purchase, and please examine the photo or photos provided, since those detail exactly what you are purchasing.  If you have any questions please email us prior to purchase.   We have thousands of happy customers all around the world! Thank you for your WONDERFUL Feedback! We are downsizing a large art library and large art collection--please see our other listings by checking out our other items! and visit our Enthusiast Books eBay Store by clicking >>  PAYMENT IS EXPECTED WITHIN 7 DAYS FROM END OF AUCTION. SHIPPING: We ship only via USPS. 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It is possible that in some cases a similar courtesy can be extended for international shipments, but, because of the Post Office limitations on package size, weight, content etc., an international buyer must contact us in ADVANCE to confirm whether any such courtesy may be extended for the particular items desired. WE THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE OVER THE PAST MANY YEARS! About this well listed artist. Biography from AskART: Known for her abstract sculpture in bronze and marble as well as prints and paintings, particularly depicting the female figure, Elizabeth Catlett is unique for distilling African American, Native American, and Mexican art in her work. She is "considered by many to be the greatest American black sculptor". . .(Rubinstein 320) Catlett was born in Washington D.C. and later became a Mexican citizen, residing in Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico. She spent the last 35 years of her life in Mexico. She was born in Washington DC. Her father, a math teacher at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, died before she was born, but the family, including her working mother, lived in the relatively commodious home of his family in DC. Catlett received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University in Washington DC, where there was much discussion about whether or not black artists should depict their own heritage or embrace European modernism. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1940 from the University of Iowa, where she had gone to study with Grant Wood, regionalist painter. His teaching dictum was "paint what you know best," and this set her on the path of dealing with her own background. She credits Wood with excellent teaching and deep concern for his students, but she had a problem during that time of taking classes from him because black students were not allowed housing in the University's dormitories. Following graduation in 1940, she became Chair of the Art Department at Dillard University in New Orleans. There she successfully lobbied for life classes with nude models, and gained museum admission to black students at a local museum that to that point, had banned their entrance. That same year, her painting Mother and Child, depicting African-American figures won her much recognition. From 1944 to 1946, she taught at the George Washington Carver School, an alternative community school in Harlem that provided instruction for working men and women of the city. From her experiences with these people, she did a series of paintings, prints, and sculptures with the theme "I Am a Negro Woman." In 1946, she received a Rosenwald Fellowship, and she and her artist husband, Charles White, traveled to Mexico where she became interested in the Mexican working classes. In 1947, she settled permanently in Mexico where she, divorced from White, married artist Francisco Mora. The couple had three children. From 1958 to 1973, she became the first woman professor of sculpture and later Chair of the department of sculpture at the National School of Fine Arts Mexico. There she also did much printmaking, which she found an affordable medium for reaching the masses of people and produced images of African-American and Mexican working class women. Place a Bid!