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Series Title: The Gift

Shirley King

1990–94

Emma Amos

(American, 1937–2020)
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Culture
America
Medium
watercolor
Measurements
Sheet: 67 x 50.1 cm (26 3/8 x 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2023.126.16
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 vertically oriented watercolor portrait depicts a woman with light skin tone from the shoulders up against a light background. Her gray and black shoulder-length hair is accented with thin blue and red lines. Pink washes tint her cheeks and chin. Her eyes look toward us, and her red lips are set in a horizontal line. Below her neck, a pale yellow garment is visible. Handwritten text is inscribed along the bottom edge.

Shirley King

1990–94

Emma Amos

(American, 1937–2020)
America

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