The Gift
Emma Amos · 1990–94 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Gift comprises forty-eight 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 gift for her daughter India, on the occasion of India’s twentieth birthday. Emma Amos includes a self-portrait and a portrait of her daughter India in this work.
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Details
- Maker
- Emma Amos (American, 1937–2020)
- Date
- 1990–94
- Medium
- 48 watercolor (acrylic wash) portraits on Saunders Waterford watercolor paper
- Dimensions
- Each approximately: 66.5 x 50.5 cm (26 3/16 x 19 7/8 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