A prominent African American sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett created art dedicated to aesthetic rigor, human dignity, and freedom for all. Born in 1915, in Washington, DC, she graduated from Howard University and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa, before settling in Mexico in 1946. There she became part of a printmaking collective that believed in the power of art to educate and promote social change. She remained committed to those ideals throughout her long career.

Special Exhibition Prints

Never content to rest on his well-earned laurels, Matisse kept pushing the development of his artwork even into his seventies when he turned to cut and pasted colored paper as his medium. It was both the aesthetic flourishing of his exploration of ever simplified shapes and flat planes of color as well as a means of diminishing the burdens of his infirmity and weakening eyesight.