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        "tombstone": "Without Feather Boa, 1965. Emma Amos (American, 1937\u20132020). Color etching and aquatint; support: 81.9 x 62.4 x 0.2 cm (32 1/4 x 24 9/16 x 1/16 in.); image: 76.8 x 57.5 cm (30 1/4 x 22 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Alma Kroeger Fund, 2021.142. \u00a9 Emma Amos; Courtesy of RYAN LEE Gallery, New York",
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        "title": "Without Feather Boa",
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        "measurements": "Support: 81.9 x 62.4 x 0.2 cm (32 1/4 x 24 9/16 x 1/16 in.); Image: 76.8 x 57.5 cm (30 1/4 x 22 5/8 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Emma Amos; Courtesy of RYAN LEE Gallery, New York",
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                "inscription": "signed and inscribed below platemark, in pencil: AP 1965 / Without Feather Boa / Emma Amos",
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                    "id": 699635,
                    "title": "The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends",
                    "description": "<i>The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 13, 2026-January 24, 2027).",
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                "date": "1965-2020",
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                "description": "(Ryan/Lee Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "2020\u20132021",
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        "did_you_know": "Emma Amos revisited the self-portrait seen in this print in a painting entitled <em>Baby</em> (1966, Whitney Museum), in which she appears against a colorful abstract background.",
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        "description": "Emma Amos used the creative potential of printmaking to address issues of race, gender, and social inequity. This print features a self-portrait in which the artist appears topless, gazing directly at the viewer through a pair of opaque sunglasses. Its varied patterning suggests Amos\u2019s training in fabric design, as well as her interest in experimenting with and developing her own methods of etching. Amos selected the work to be included in the first and only exhibition of Spiral, an influential Black artists\u2019 collective of which she was the youngest and only female member, in 1965.",
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        "creditline": "Alma Kroeger Fund",
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        "gallery_donor_text": "Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Galleries",
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        "updated_at": "2026-09-15 11:13:06.353000"
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