Object Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2017.1.1 |
Object Name |
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Description |
From the series "For My People," a set of six lithographs illustrating a poem by Margaret Walker. Printed by J. K. Fine Art Editions Co. and published by the Limited Editions Club, New York. Signed lower right, in pencil: E Catlett '92. Lower left in pencil: 74/99 Elizabeth Catlett's To Marry is inspired by a verse in Margaret Walker's poem "For My People." Laid out like a family photo album, the print depicts a couple on their wedding day, above an image of a black man who has been lynched against a blood-red background. The disturbing contrast is a direct reference to Walker's poem about the perseverance and grief of African Americans who "marry their playmates and bear children and then die of consumption and anemia and lynching." |
Title |
To Marry |
Date |
1992 |
Role of Creator |
Artist |
Creator |
Catlett, Elizabeth |
Medium |
color lithograph on cream woven paper |
Material |
paper |
Dimensions |
H-15.75 W-13.75 inches |
Credit line |
Museum purchase made possible from the Landauer/Schmidt Fund |
Place of Origin |
US |
Subjects |
Civil rights African American Marriage Race Race discrimination Race relations Lynchings Minorities Power (Social sciences) Social values Activism Poetry Advocacy |