Emma Amos at Elizabeth Catlett's Artist: Emma Amos (American, 1938–2020)

2006

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Emma Amos’s work is largely autobiographical, but she also explores issues concerning politics, gender, race, and cultural history. In this work, created during her stay at the artist Elizabeth Catlett’s Mexican home, Amos investigates how to depict her mixed heritage, using a contrast of light and shadow that may also reference ongoing social divisions in the twenty-first century. Amos’s work is always filled with movement, which she creates here through vibrant colors, texture, and her use of line.

Medium

Hand-painted stencil

Dimensions

image: 14 3/4 × 15 in. (37.465 × 38.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Jean and Robert E. Steele, M.P.H. 1971, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1975

Accession Number

2007.96.1

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

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Object copyright
© Artist/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
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Additional information

Subject

African American artists Women artists

Edition

2/2

Inscriptions

Inscribed in graphite l.l.: 2/2; l.l.: Emma Amos at Elizabeth Catlett's 2006

Signed

Signed l.r.

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