Elizabeth+Catlett


 * By La’Ara grade 6 **

There was a woman who was known for her sculptures, African American, and Mexican artwork. Her name is Elizabeth Catlett Mora, born on April 15, 1915 in Washington, D.C. She got a Masters of Fine Arts Degree in 1940, from the University of Iowa. In the summer of 1941 she got married to a man named Charles White in Chicago. They divorced five years later. She learned a lot from a painter named Grant Wood. He said "paint what you know best". She fell in love with carving and she started painting her own background. One of her most famous sculptures is The Invisible Man, built in 2003 in Harlem New York. In 1946 she went to Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico. There she married a Mexican artist named Francisco Mora. They had three sons: Juan, David, and Franisco. Her granddaughter Namia Mora was a American Next Top Model season 4 winner. Elizabeth made a famous sculpture of Namia when she was little. She then retired in 1975 and stayed in Mexico. Her art was showed in many art galleries all around the world. In 2012 she died. She lived until the age of ninety six.