Target
Elizabeth Catlett
American, 1915–2012
Details
Title
Target
Artist/Maker
Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915–2012)
Date
ca. 1955
Medium
Terra-cotta
Dimensions
14 x 10 x 8 inches
Credit
Purchase with funds from Bridget and Jerry Dobson and General Acquisitions Fund
Accession #
2006.28
One of the few widely successful African-American women artists of the mid 1900s, sculptor and graphic artist Elizabeth Catlett is perhaps best known for her work’s emphasis on themes of racial injustice. With Target, Catlett summarizes the African-American male experience in a society fraught with social conflict. This piece predates the better-known bronze of the same title and subject, which also includes an enlarged gun sight that literally centers the man’s face in the crosshairs of the viewer.
Image Copyright
© Elizabeth Catlett/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York