id:			445050
accession number:	2021.142
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.142
updated:		2023-01-12 02:34:28.409000

Without Feather Boa, 1965. Emma Amos (American, 1937–2020). Color etching and aquatint; image: 76.2 x 57.2 cm (30 x 22 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Alma Kroeger Fund 2021.142

title:				Without Feather Boa
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creation date:			1965
creation date earliest:		1965
creation date latest:		1965
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creditline:			Alma Kroeger Fund
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culture:	America
technique:	color etching and aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Emma Amos (American, 1937–2020)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 76.2 x 57.2 cm (30 x 22 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed and inscribed below platemark, in pencil: AP 1965 / Without Feather Boa / Emma Amos
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Emma Amos family collection
	date: 1965-2020
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	(Ryan/Lee Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 2020–2021
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2021-
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fun fact:
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.

digital 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’s 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’ collective of which she was the youngest and only female member, in 1965.

wall description:
Emma Amos employed 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’s 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’ collective of which she was the youngest and only female member, in 1965.
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