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Series Title: The Gift

Lorna Simpson

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: 65.9 x 50.4 cm (25 15/16 x 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2023.126.31
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 vertical watercolor portrait depicts a woman with medium-brown skin tone from the shoulders up. Centered, she looks directly at us with wide-set eyes and a neutral mouth. Thick, long locks rendered in loose gray and brown washes frame her face. She wears a dark garment with a bright green section at the neckline. Brushstrokes and washes of red and green define her features against a flat, off-white background.

Lorna Simpson

1990–94

Emma Amos

(American, 1937–2020)
America

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