Flowers for George Jackson

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A color woodcut print titled “Flowers for George Jackson” by Elizabeth Catlett. At the center left is a black and white image of a smiling George Jackson, an incarcerated activist who was killed in prison. In the right lower corner is a black and white image of the face of a child repeated over two rows of three. Along the bottom left corner is a horizontal row of five roses gradient in color from left to right, from scarlet red to canary yellow. On the front of the print, the artist signed and dated in the lower right corner, outside of the print area [E. Catlett 1975] and in pencil on the lower left corner, outside of the print area [1/20 Flowers for George Jackson]. On the back of the print, in the upper left corner, is an inscription handwritten in pencil [500].

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