国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 2月22日 21時52分

Around 1970, artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) made this untitled print of a female portrait head as a demonstration piece for a Howard University art class taught by Lila Asher. She cut multiple blocks and printed the image using a paper mask to cover sections that she didn't want to print.
While rolls of linoleum were used for floor covering from the 1860s, artists only began to use the material about 1910. Pieces of linoleum, sometimes mounted on wood blocks, were quick to cut and offered a readily available material for making bold lines for prints. The material took on a useful role in art education, and many students from the 1930s to today first learned about printmaking from cutting and inking linoleum blocks, also called linocuts.
Catlett earned her bachelor's degree from Howard University and her master's degree from the University of Iowa. Known as a printmaker and as a sculptor, Catlett made powerful portraits in black and white, which often were linoleum cuts. She received a Rosenwald fellowship that took her to Mexico in 1946. There, she married artist Francisco Mora and began a long association with the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People's Graphic Workshop), an artists' printmaking collective in Mexico City, in the 1950s.
Women artists often had difficulties in showing their work and in being accepted in the art world largely dominated by men. African American women faced additional discrimination due to racism. Despite these obstacles, Catlett and her peers found ways to exhibit and teach, and they helped establish institutions that would support the work of future generations of artists.
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