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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1965 creation date earliest: 1965 creation date latest: 1965 current location: creditline: Alma Kroeger Fund copyright: --- culture: America technique: color etching and aquatint department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Emma Amos (American, 1937–2020) - artist --- measurements: Image: 76.2 x 57.2 cm (30 x 22 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed and inscribed below platemark, in pencil: AP 1965 / Without Feather Boa / Emma Amos translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Emma Amos family collection date: 1965-2020 footnotes: citations: (Ryan/Lee Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: 2020–2021 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2021- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Emma Amos revisited the self-portrait seen in this print in a painting entitled Baby (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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES