In Harriet Tubman I helped hundreds to freedom, from the series "The Black Woman" (formerly titled "The Negro Woman")
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In Harriet Tubman I helped hundreds to freedom, from the series "The Black Woman" (formerly titled "The Negro Woman")
Maker
Elizabeth Catlett
(b. 1915, Washington, District of Columbia – d. 2012, Cuernavaca, Mexico)
Printer
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
(New York)
Date1946-47 (printed 1989)
MediumLinocut
Dimensionsimage: 9 in. x 7 in. (22.9 cm x 17.8 cm); sheet: 15 7/8 in. x 11 3/4 in. (40.3 cm x 29.8 cm)
ClassificationPRINTS
Credit LineMuseum purchase, The Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection Acquisition Fund
Object number2000.40
Status
Not on viewRights© Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Photo creditDavis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Elizabeth CatlettAnne Q. McKeownPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Brodsky Center
2005
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