Elizabeth Catlett's Sharecropper becomes an icon of Black American art

Elizabeth Catlett's linocut Sharecropper (1952) became one of the most recognized images in African American art, a dignified portrait of a Black rural woman that combined formal power with political consciousness. Catlett, working in both sculpture and printmaking, was a central figure bridging the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Her work is held by major museums worldwide.