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Series Title: The Gift

Sharon Egretta Sutton

1990–94

Emma Amos

(American, 1937–2020)
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Culture
America
Medium
Watercolor (acrylic wash) portrait on Saunders Waterford watercolor paper
Measurements
Sheet: 67 x 50.8 cm (26 3/8 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2023.126.23
Copyright
© Emma Amos; Courtesy of RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
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Location
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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 depicts a woman with brown skin tone facing us. She wears thin, rounded glasses over eyes of different colors, one purple and one brown. Her short, gray hair features layered washes and dark, circular scribbles. She wears a bright red shirt under a purple jacket. The figure is centered against a white background featuring handwritten text and the date 1990 at the bottom.

Sharon Egretta Sutton

1990–94

Emma Amos

(American, 1937–2020)
America

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