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To Marry
Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915–2012)
1992
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 40 × 39.8 cm (15 3/4 × 15 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz Collection—Gift of Richard A. Pinkowitz in memory of JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz
Accession Number2024.2654
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionInpired by a verse from Margaret Walker's 1942 poem For My People: "For the boys and girls who grew in spite of these things to / be man and woman, to laugh and dance and sing and / play and drink their wine and religion and success, to / marry their playmates and bear children and then die / of consumption and anemia and lynching.”
Signed
InscriptionsIn graphite, l.l.: 1/99; l.r.: E Catlett '92
ProvenanceJuly 15, 2021, sale, Swann Galleries, New York, lot 146, sold to Jo-Ann Edinburg Pinkowitz (b. 1948 - d. 2022) and Richard Pinkowitz, Newton, MA; 2024, gift of Richard Pinkowitz to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 9, 2024)