Blues [alt: I Have Given the World My Songs]

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Blues [alt: I Have Given the World My Songs]

Elizabeth Catlett
(1915 - 2012)
artist

Object Type

Print

Medium

Linocut on paper

Date

1947

Edition

5/35

Dimensions

185 x 98 mm

Credit

Art Collection purchase, 1986

Accession Number

1986.12.2

  • guitars - Plucked lutelike chordophones with built-up ribs, gently-waisted body, fretted neck, flat peg disc, rear or machine tuning pegs, frontal string holder combined with bridge, and large circular soundhole. Their size, form, and number of strings can vary.
  • music - The art concerned with the combining of vocal or instrumental sounds in measured time to communicate emotions, ideas, or states of mind, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony.
  • women - Refers to female human beings from young adulthood through old age.

 

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Exhibition History

Black Figure Prints: Vignettes of an American Experience, 8/4/1986 to 9/30/1986
Visual Arts of the Americas Part 1: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, 5/9/2003 to 7/20/2003
Power Up, 5/12/2022 to 10/15/2022

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