The Brooklyn Museum’s retrospective of over 200 of Catlett’s works finally gives this influential sculptor and printmaker her due. As an Afro-American woman coming of age during the Great Depression, Catlett witnessed class inequality, racial violence, and U.S. imperialism up close. Catlett employed a visual language distinguished by strongly delineated forms and compositional focus to depict people and perspectives that had been historically excluded from artistic representation—further inspiring the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Image: Christie’s.
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