The curators of the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition “Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist” withhold her most famous work, the 1968 carving of a clenched fist known as ...

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) is hardly an unknown artist. Her sharecropper images, particularly a 1952 linocut of a weary worker in a wide-brimmed hat, are recognizable far beyond the art world.