Newspaper Vendor (Study for the lithograph, "Vendedora De Periodicos"), 1955 pencil on paper Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Purchase: The '98 Tabriz Fund. 99.6.5
Elizabeth Catlett
American, born 1919
As an artist, Elizabeth Catlett has achieved high praise in numerous artistic media. Born in Washington D.C. in 1919, she began her studies at Howard University, where she received a B.S. Three years later, she gained an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, where she studied with the famed regionalist painter Grant Wood. Additionally, she studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, printmaking at the Art Students League and sculpture in Mexico. Late in the 1950s, she received a teaching post at the National Autonomous University of Mexico where she remained until 1976. Though she lives in Mexico, in 1983 Catlett was recognized for her contributions with a solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
While her early exposure to regionalism, and their dedication to the realm of daily activity, is evidenced in this finished study, one senses a genuine empathy with this figure that is not always shown in the paintings of Grant Wood and other regionalists.
  
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