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@cateknit.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 8:55 AM

Brilliant printmaker. A longtime admired favorite.
#Catlett #Artist #ArtSky #blm

@worldofartbysue.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 5:08 PM

September's theme: Labor
ELIZABETH CATLETT (1915 - 2012), “Sharecropper”, 1952 & 1970. Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
Catlett was an artist who used her work to highlight the plight of African-American women while stressing their dignity, strength and resilience.
#arthistory #art #labor #Catlett

Catlett was a tireless art educator and artist who used her work to highlight the plight of African-American women while stressing their dignity, strength and resilience. “Sharecropper” is her most famous print. She produced this colored version of her original 1952 linocut print as a reprint in 1970. In “Sharecropper”, Catlett uses a low perspective, forcing the viewer to look up into the woman’s face to find her determination. The composition is made of patterns and textures: the large brimmed straw hat, the woman’s hair, the folds in her garment being held closed by a large safety pin, the busy background that mimics a field of grain, the lines giving hard-won character to the fieldworker’s face. Race, gender and social inequality were themes embraced by Catlett in her art and in her life. Her prints and sculptures grew increasingly political after she moved permanently to Mexico in 1947, where she became acquainted with the Mexican power artists (Rivera, Siqueiros, Kahlo and Francisco Mora, whom she married and with whom she raised a family). Catlett’s leftist activities drew the scorn of the American government; she became a Mexican citizen in 1962 and the US promptly barred her reentry to her birth country as an “undesirable alien”. It wasn’t until 1983 that she was allowed to return to the US.