Femfolio
2009 · Portfolio of nineteen digital prints (twelve with lithograph, one with pochoir, one with hand coloring, and one with gold dusting) and one lithograph
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Museum of Modern Art
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Emma Amos
American, 1937
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26
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
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Emma Amos was an American painter and printmaker whose figurative works combined abstraction with portraiture, often centering Black women and the complexities of identity in postwar America. Working primarily in oils, acrylics, and etching, her compositions layered gestural mark-making with representational elements, creating a visual tension between the personal and the universal. Her practice engaged with color and form as instruments of psychological and social inquiry.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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