Emma Amos (painter)

Emma Amos (painter)
Atlanta, Silimin gɔli March 16, 1937
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	America
Residence	New York Atlanta
African Americans ^(en)
Kpibu shee	Bedford ^(en) , Silimin gɔli May 20, 2020
Ŋ-ŋɔ kum	natural causes ^(en)  (Alzheimer's disease ^(en) )
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ	Antioch College ^(en) New York University Central Saint Martins ^(en) Mason Gross School of the Arts ^(en)
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu	Silmiinsili
Tuma
Tuma	Pɛnta-pɛnta, printmaker ^(en) ni textile artist ^(en)
Ŋun kpuɣi o tuma	Rutgers University ^(en) Dorothy Liebes ^(en) Dalton School ^(en) Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts ^(en)
Pin' shɛŋa o ni dee	view Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award  (2004)
Nira zaŋti	Spiral ^(en) Heresies Collective ^(en) Guerrilla Girls ^(en)
Laɣingu	postmodernism ^(en) feminist art ^(en)
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Emma Amos (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli March biɛɣ'pinaayobu dali yuuni 1937 ka daa kpi silimiin goli May biɛɣ'pishi dali yuuni 2020) daa nyɛla African-American pɛnta pɛnta mini printmaker.

Piligu biɛhigu

Amos daa nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi so Atlanta, Georgia yuuni 1937^[1] ka o lammba nyɛ India DeLaine Amos mini Miles Green Amos.^[2] O nyɛla ŋun lahi mali beli ŋun nyɛ doo ka o yuli booni Larry.^[3]

Legacy

Amos nyɛla ŋun daa che karimba tali tuma yuuni 2008 amaa ka nyɛ ŋun daa na kuli sɔŋdi o shikuru bihi. O yuuni 2017 tuma Soul of a Nation Tate show nyɛla din daa kpaŋsi Duro Olowu.^[4]

Amos nyɛla ŋun daa kpi ni Alzheimer's dɔro silimiin goli May biɛɣ'pishi dali yuuni 2020 saha shɛli o ni daa nyɛ yuun pihinii ni ata.^[5][6] Yuuni 2021, Emma Amos: Color Odyssey tuma ŋɔ nyɛla Shawnya Harris ni daa laɣim shɛli Georgia Museum of Art.^[7][8]

Amos' tumanima shɛli nyɛ yuuni 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women din daa niŋ Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.^[9]

Notable works in public collections

• Without Feather Boa (1965), Cleveland Museum of Art;^[10] Museum of Modern Art, New York;^[11] and Whitney Museum, New York^[12]
• Baby (1966), Whitney Museum, New York^[13]
• Flower Sniffer (1966), Brooklyn Museum, New York^[14]
• Godzilla (1968), Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York^[15]
• Summer, 1968 (1968), Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul^[16]
• 3 Ladies (1970), Art Institute of Chicago;^[17] Museum of Modern Art, New York;^[18] and Philadelphia Museum of Art^[19]
• Sandy and Her Husband (1973), Cleveland Museum of Art^[20]
• American Girl (1974), British Museum, London;^[21] Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.;^[22] Museum of Modern Art, New York;^[23] Philadelphia Museum of Art;^[24] and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.^[25]
• Dream Girl (1975), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston^[26]
• Pool Lady (1980), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.^[27]
• Sand Tan (1980), Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.^[28]
• To Sit (With Pochoir) (1981), Baltimore Museum of Art;^[29] Philadelphia Museum of Art;^[30] and Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey^[31]
• Out in Front (1982), Minneapolis Institute of Art^[32]
• Winning (1982), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.^[33]
• Black Dog Blues (1983), Art Institute of Chicago^[34]
• Take One (1985-1987), Museum of Modern Art, New York^[35]
• Equals (1992), Detroit Institute of Arts^[36]
• Mississippi Wagon 1937 (1992), British Museum, London^[37]
• Baggage (1993), Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut^[38]
• Reminders GA & FL (1994), Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts^[39]
• Sold (1994), Whitney Museum, New York;^[40] and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut^[41]
• Tightrope (1994), Minneapolis Institute of Art^[42]
• About Whiteness (Red) (1995), Whitney Museum, New York^[43]
• Measuring, Measuring (1995), Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama^[44]
• Solo (1999), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[45]
• Crown (2002), Minneapolis Institute of Art;^[46] National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.;^[47] and Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey^[48]
• Miss Otis (2002), Philadelphia Museum of Art;^[49] and Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia^[50]
• How Time Flies (2004), Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Identity (2006), Museum of Modern Art, New York;^[51] Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts;^[52] and Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey^[53]

Kundivihira

1. Emma Amos (en).
2. Emma Amos (b. 1937).
3. Oral history interview with Emma Amos, 2011 November 19-26 (en).
4. Durón, Maximilíano (2021-04-30). How Emma Amos's Art and Activism Powerfully Confronted Racism and Sexism (en-US).
5. Greenberger, Alex (2020-05-22). Emma Amos, Imaginative Painter Who Attacked Racism Through Figuration, Is Dead at 83 (en-US).
6. Cotter, Holland (2020-05-29). "Emma Amos, Painter Who Challenged Racism and Sexism, Dies at 83" (en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/arts/emma-amos-dead.html.
7. Salisbury, Stephan (Nov 29, 2021). Emma Amos' artwork is celebrated in a traveling retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (en).
8. Emma Amos: Color Odyssey (en-US).^{[permanent dead link]}
9. Women Painting Women (en).
10. Without Feather Boa. Cleveland Museum of Art (7 December 2021).
11. Without Feather Boa. Museum of Modern Art.
12. Without Feather Boa. Whitney Museum.
13. Baby. Whitney Museum.
14. Flower Sniffer.
15. Godzilla. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.
16. Summer, 1968. Minnesota Museum of American Art.
17. 3 Ladies. Art Institute of Chicago (1970).
18. 3 Ladies. Museum of Modern Art.
19. 3 Ladies. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
20. Sandy and Her Husband. Cleveland Museum of Art (30 October 2018).
21. American Girl.
22. American Girl. Library of Congress.
23. American Girl. Museum of Modern Art.
24. American Girl. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
25. American Girl. Smithsonian Institution.
26. Dream Girl. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
27. Pool Lady. National Gallery of Art (1980).
28. Sand Tan. Library of Congress.
29. To Sit (With Porchoir). Baltimore Museum of Art.
30. To Sit (With Porchoir). Philadelphia Museum of Art.
31. To Sit. Princeton University.
32. Out in Front. Minneapolis Institute of Art.
33. Winning. Smithsonian Institution.
34. Black Dog Blues. Art Institute of Chicago (1983).
35. Take One. Museum of Modern Art.
36. Equals. Detroit Institute of Arts.
37. Mississippi Wagon 1937.
38. Baggage.
39. Reminders GA & FL. Williams College.
40. Sold. Whitney Museum.
41. Sold. Yale University.
42. Tightrope. Minneapolis Institute of Art.
43. About Whiteness (Red). Whitney Museum.
44. Measuring, Measuring. Birmingham Museum of Art.
45. Solo. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
46. Crown. Minneapolis Institute of Art.
47. Crown. National Gallery of Art.
48. Crown. Princeton University.
49. Miss Otis. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
50. Miss Otis. Telfair Museums.
51. Identity. Museum of Modern Art.
52. Identity. Mount Holyoke College.
53. Identity. Rutgers University.

Further reading

• Amos, Emma (Fall 1982). "Some Do's and Don'ts for Black Women Artists" (PDF). Heresies. No. 15. New York: Heresies Collective. p. 19. ISSN 0146-3411. OCLC 913569846. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
• Amos, Emma; Gouma-Peterson, Thalia; Hooks, Bell; Mercer, Valerie J; Zurko, Kathleen McManus (1993). Emma Amos : paintings and prints 1982-92: an exhibition. Wooster, OH: College of Wooster Art Museum. ISBN 978-0-9604658-7-3. OCLC 29579572.
• (February 1998) "Taking the Plunge". ARTnews 97 (2): 110–113. ISSN 0004-3273.
• (1999) "Private Dancer, Private Dealer: Private Show!". International Review of African American Art 16 (3): 2, 60. ISSN 1045-0920.
• Jegede, Dele (2009). "Emma Amos (b. 1938), Painter, Printmaker, Fiber Artist". Encyclopedia of African American Artists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 7–11. ISBN 978-0-313-33761-1. OCLC 466422666 – via Internet Archive.
• Patton, Sharon (1995). "Living Fearlessly with and within Difference(s)". In Driskell, David C. (ed.). African American Visual Aesthetics: A Postmodernist View. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 45–79. ISBN 978-1-56098-605-8. OCLC 604999396 – via Internet Archive.
• Patton, Sharon (2002-09-01). "Emma Amos: Art Matters". Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 (16–17): 41–47. DOI:10.1215/10757163-16-17-1-41. ISSN 2152-7792.
• Spears, Melanie J. (May 2010). An Assertive Black Feminist Gaze (MA). Washington, DC: Howard University. Tɛmplet:ProQuest – via ProQuest.

External links

• Official website
• Oral history interview with Emma Amos, 1968 October 3 (2021-01-12).
• Emma Amos Died Just Before Her Retrospective But Her Art Is Alive As Ever (2021-01-13).