id:			162335
accession number:	2002.64
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.64
updated:		2023-03-15 15:46:45.082000

Magic People, 2002. Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915–2012). Color linoleum cut; sheet: 37.4 x 35.7 cm (14 3/4 x 14 1/16 in.); image: 25.7 x 24.4 cm (10 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist 2002.64 © Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

title:				Magic People
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			2002
creation date earliest:		2002
creation date latest:		2002
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of the Artist
copyright:			© Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

---

culture:	America, 21st century
technique:	color linoleum cut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Linocut
type:		Print
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

* Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915–2012)  - artist

---

measurements: Sheet: 37.4 x 35.7 cm (14 3/4 x 14 1/16 in.); Image: 25.7 x 24.4 cm (10 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	lower right, in pencil: "E. Catlett 2002"
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

---

PROVENANCE

---

fun fact:


digital description:


wall description:
A mother of three sons, a grandmother, and a lifelong teacher, Elizabeth Catlett has always been involved with young people. She made <em>Magic People</em> for the Museum Ambassadors, a group of Cleveland-area high-school students who are exposed to the museum environment to encourage an ongoing relationship with the arts in their communities. Catlett has been working for six decades as a printmaker and sculptor. She produces compassionate, heroic images of ordinary people, rendered in a style of simplified realism, which celebrate her African American identity as well as her adopted Mexican homeland. Catlett went to Mexico in 1946 to work at the printmaking workshop Taller de Gráfica Popular (People's Art Workshop). While there, she met her husband, artist Francisco Mora.
---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	"Museums Ambassadors", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 43 no. 05, May 2003
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-05/page/6

---

IMAGES