the Paul R Jones collection of African American art

... For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding, trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people, all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations ...

from the poem FOR MY PEOPLE, by Margaret Walker
illustrations by Elizabeth Catlett

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NEXT GENERATION

TO MARRY ...

PLAYMATES

WALKING BLINDLY

SINGING THEIR SONGS

ALL THE PEOPLE

Illustrations for the epic poem
FOR MY PEOPLE
by Margaret Walker
Portfolio of 6 original litlographs

1998 - 22 x 18 inches - edition of 99

Each of the poem's ten stanzas was hand-set in thirty-point Albertus sans-serif type. The text and lithographs were printed on Arches papers. The book is bound in red Japanese linen over heavy board, in a presentation box covered in black cotton.

LINKS

Elizabeth Catlett: Prints and Sculpture
Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art
www.clevelandart.org

Profile of the Artist
from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
www.nmwa.org

Elizabeth Catlett CV
from the June Kelly Gallery
http://www.junekellygallery.com/catlett.htm

For My People: A Reading by Leah Ward Sears
Supreme Court Justice of Georgia
Atlanta, GA
Video from the FAVORITE POEM PROJECT
http://www.favoritepoem.org/thevideos/sears.html

For My People
The complete text of the poem
http://www.favoritepoem.org/poems/walker/index.html

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