Without Feather Boa
<p>Emma Amos, <em>Without Feather Boa</em>, 1965. Etching and aquatint, sheet: 28 1/2 × 22 in. (72.4 × 55.9 cm) Plate: 23 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (60.3 × 47 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 2019.300. © Emma Amos / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1965
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 28 1/2 × 22 in. (72.4 × 55.9 cm) Plate: 23 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (60.3 × 47 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Emma Amos
Artist
Painting
Emma Amos was an American painter and printmaker whose figurative works combined abstraction with portraiture, often centering Black women and the complexities of identity in postwar America. Working primarily in oils, acrylics, and etching, her compositions layered gestural mark-making with representational elements, creating a visual tension between the personal and the universal. Her practice engaged with color and form as instruments of psychological and social inquiry.
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- Emma Amos
- Year
- 1965
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 28 1/2 × 22 in. (72.4 × 55.9 cm) Plate: 23 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (60.3 × 47 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1965-170990
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified