sculptor

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Primarily a sculptor and printmaker, Catlett worked in the social realist tradition and her work often celebrates the dignity of Black and brown working people, especially women.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Her brother, the sculptor Augustus John, wrote after reading her personal papers that her faith may have given her “some moments of peace, consolation or ecstasy,” but also “much anguish of mind.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

For many years John earned money as an artist's model to support her painting, including working for sculptor August Rodin, with whom she had a passionate decade-long affair, writing him no fewer than 1,000 letters.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

But the $360,000 statue, commissioned by cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and backers of then-candidate Trump, has waited more than a year to be erected, partly because sculptor Alan Cottrill has yet to get paid.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

Ages later, the sculptor crumbles out of the doorway and up to the mailbox.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson