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Series Title: The Gift

Susan Unterberg

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: 65.6 x 50.4 cm (25 13/16 x 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2023.126.43
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 Susan Unterberg, a woman with light skin tone, her nose and cheeks highlighted in pink, facing us with her head tilted toward our left. Wavy brown hair frames her large green eyes and mouth set in a straight line. She wears a pink and white striped shirt. Thin, watery brushstrokes of pink, tan, and green define her features against the cream paper, with text at the bottom.

Susan Unterberg

1990–94

Emma Amos

(American, 1937–2020)
America

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