Camille Billops
Emma Amos · 1990–94 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Gift comprises 48 individual watercolor portraits of women artists, writers, and curators in Emma Amos’s community in New York in the early 1990s. The women pictured belong to different generations and are from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds. Amos created the work as a birthday present for her daughter India. Artist Camille Billops cofounded the Hatch-Billops Collection, a significant archive documenting Black art and culture of the 20th century.
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Details
- Maker
- Emma Amos (American, 1937–2020)
- Date
- 1990–94
- Medium
- Watercolor (acrylic wash) portrait on Saunders Waterford watercolor paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 66.5 x 50.7 cm (26 3/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- America
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · On view · 230 Photography
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund