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The Gift

1990–94

Emma Amos

(American, 1937–2020)
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Culture
America
Medium
48 watercolor portraits
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2023.126
Copyright
© Emma Amos; Courtesy of RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
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Location
Not on view
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Emma Amos includes a self-portrait and a portrait of her daughter India in this work.

Description

The Gift comprises forty-eight individual watercolor portraits of women artists, writers, and curators in Emma Amos’s community in New York in the early 1990s. The women pictured belong to different generations and are from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds. Amos created the work as a gift for her daughter India, on the occasion of India’s twentieth birthday.
A set of forty-eight watercolor portraits arranged in four rows of twelve each depict a portrait of a woman from the shoulders up. Positioned angled in all directions, some looking at us, others not, their skin tones range from light to medium-dark. The colorful watercolors loosely render each woman, showing through to the beige paper at points. Emma Amos's self-portrait features in the upper right corner and her daughter India's portrait the upper left.

The Gift

1990–94

Emma Amos

(American, 1937–2020)
America

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