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“I recently read ‘All that She Carried,’ an extraordinary book by Tiya Miles that traces the journey of a cotton sack carefully packed by an enslaved woman for her nine-year-old daughter before she was sold from her in the 1850s. The sack’s improbable journey through generations of Black women, a powerful symbol of care and resilience in the face of violence, immediately reminded me of Elizabeth Catlett’s ‘Mother and Child.’ Created at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the sculpture beautifully captures the purity of maternal love and reminds us, like Ashley’s sack, of the radical potential of love.” —Carlota Ortiz Monasterio, Research Programs
For National Book Month, we asked staff to share artworks from MoMA’s collection that are connected to literature.
📖 Read more on #MoMAMagazine → mo.ma/3rMUasN
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Elizabeth Catlett. “Mother and Child.” 1956. Gift of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art, The Modern Women’s Fund, and Dr. Alfred Gold (by exchange)
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