Singing Their Songs

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A color lithograph print titled “Singing Their Songs” by Elizabeth Catlett. The print is divided into four unequal quadrants. The upper left quadrant depicts a Black woman from the neck up with her mouth open in song. Against an orange background in the upper right quadrant is a kneeling Black woman wearing a brown dress with white flowers, her hands clasped in a prayer position. In the bottom left quadrant are two repeated images in black ink of a Black man's face against a blue background. In the bottom right quadrant is a Black man against a grey background wearing a checkered green and white shirt, his mouth open in song. The artist signed the artwork in the front in lower right corner [E. Catlett 1992], wrote the edition in the lower left corner [A/P VII], and the title in the bottom center [Singing their songs..].

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