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"tombstone": "Sandy and Her Husband, 1973. Emma Amos (American, 1937\u20132020). Oil on canvas; 112.4 x 127.6 cm (44 1/4 x 50 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2018.24. \u00a9 Emma Amos / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
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"title": "Emma Amos: Color Odyssey",
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"id": 443702,
"title": "Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus",
"description": "Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).",
"opening_date": "2022-02-20T05:00:00"
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"id": 615473,
"title": "Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica",
"description": "Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (December 22, 2024-March 30, 2025) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10157/project-a-black-planet-the-art-and-culture-of-panafrica.",
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"description": "We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965\u201385. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (organizer) (April 21 - September 17, 2017); California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 13, 2017 - January 14, 2018); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (February 17 - May 27, 2018; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (June 26 - September 30, 2018).",
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"did_you_know": "The image of the young woman behind the couple is a self-portrait of Amos titled Flower Sniffer (1966), in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.",
"description": "In Sandy and Her Husband, the dancing couple at the center of the image is joined by Amos herself: the artist inserted herself into the picture by rendering an earlier self-portrait, Flower Sniffer (1966), which hangs on the wall behind the couple. However, even as Amos is part of the composition, she is peripheral to the scene, unseen or ignored by the dancers. From the early 1960s until her death in 2020, Amos made paintings, prints, and textiles celebrating African American identity and culture, and often exploring women\u2019s presence within that heritage.",
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"citation": "Liebert, Emily. \u201cAcquisitions 2018: Contemporary Art.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 18-19.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 19; Mentioned: P. 18.",
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"citation": "Morris, Catherine, Rujeko Hockley, Connie H. Choi, Carmen Hermo, and Stephanie Weissberg. We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85. Exh. Cat. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 2017.",
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