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 Magic People 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. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 05, May 2003 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-05/page/6 --- IMAGES