In other folks' homes
- Created by
- Catlett, Elizabeth, Mexican and American, 1915 - 2012
- Date
- 1946-1947; printed 1989
- Medium
- ink and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image with title): 7 × 2 5/16 in. (17.8 × 5.9 cm)
- H x W (image): 6 3/8 × 2 1/16 in. (16.2 × 5.3 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 11 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (28.6 × 19.1 cm)
- Description
- This black and white linocut depicts a woman holding a broom. The woman wears a striped long sleeved shirt with a peter pan collar under a black calf-length jumper. Her sleeves are rolled up and she holds a crumpled piece of paper in her left hand and a broom in her right. There is a handwritten title below the image in pencil. It is signed by the artist on the bottom right. The back is blank.
- Place made
- Mexico City, Mexico, Latin America, North and Central America
- Portfolio/Series
- The Black Woman (formerly the Negro Woman)
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- linocuts
- Topic
- Art
- Domestic life
- Identity
- Labor
- Resistance
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Winifred Hervey
- Object number
- 2017.21.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 2020 Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.