I Have Given the World My Songs

1947

Elizabeth Catlett

Associated Names
Elizabeth Catlett

Artist, American and Mexican, 1915 - 2012

This print shows a woman sitting on a chair and holding a guitar. The woman has deep-set eyes and a wrinkled brow, and she is wearing a long-sleeved dress with black shoes, holding the guitar across her lap. In the background on the right, there are swirling pale blue lines with different shapes in them. In the bottom right, a large cross appears to be burning, and in the top right, a person in a draped white garment holds the shirt of a person with dark skin and raises a weapon up above them. Outside of the blue lines, the background is beige paper.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Harco Gallery, Tucson, Arizona); Bud and Fran Moreland Johns, San Francisco, California; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013-2014

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: E Catlett '47; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: pendientes 1-; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Elizabet [sic] Catlett / "mujer tocando la guitarra" / 13 x 19 / linoleu color.; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 32 [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q77010475

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