Chile I

Chile I

Elizabeth S. Catlett

1980

Linocut
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 7/20

As a social justice activist, Catlett found in the TGP kindred spirits. There, she became one of only two women members, met and married fellow artist Francisco Mora (1922-2002), and raised three sons. As members of the TGP, they worked until 1966 to produce posters and prints that exposed the struggles of the working class. Despite leaving the workshop, Catlett continued to use her art for political justice with an expanded Pan-American view. This 1980 linocut aptly describes the hardened lines in a Chilean woman’s worn face and speaks to the oppression of the Latin American country during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

Loaned by Sragow Gallery (Ellen Sragow, Ltd), New York, New York