Gossip

2005

Elizabeth Catlett

Associated Names
Elizabeth Catlett

Artist, American and Mexican, 1915 - 2012

Randy Hemminghaus

Printer, American

Anne Q. McKeown

Collaborator, American

This print displays two women from the waist up, seated closely together, facing each other. The woman on the left has her chin resting on her fist, her elbow on the table. She has dark skin and dark hair pulled into a smooth updo behind her head, and she is wearing a light-colored top with long sleeves and a yellow earring in her ear. Her head is turned toward the other woman, and she leans forward slightly. The woman on the right has dark skin and short, curly, dark hair, and she wears a pale green, floral-patterned, long-sleeve shirt. She faces the woman on the left. The women's faces seem to glow with pale yellow light, as if there is a light source directly above them. They are holding hands, their forearms resting on a flat white surface. The background behind the women is made up of horizontal red and white stripes of different thicknesses.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color digital and photo-lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams

  • Dimensions

    image: 37.47 × 45.72 cm (14 3/4 × 18 in.)
    sheet: 59.69 × 60.96 cm (23 1/2 × 24 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2008.115.1185

  • Copyright

    © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2024

  • Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2024-2026.

Bibliography

2024

  • Scruggs, Dalia, editor. Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies. Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2024-2026.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 122/200; lower center: Gossip; lower right: E Catlett 2005

Markings

printer's blindstamp [starburst] lower left

Watermarks

partial watermark, lower right

Wikidata ID

Q76455097

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