Woman Fixing Her Hair Artist/sculptor Elizabeth Catlett was born April 15, 1915. The first of the University of Iowa 's students to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree, Catlett won eight prizes and honors between 1941 and 1969. Catlett's exhibitions have been at museums and institutions in Mexico City, Moscow, Prague, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing as well as in every major American art museum . Her work is part of the permanent collection in dozens of museums throughout the world. Elizabeth Catlett died in 2012.