American · 1937–2020
Emma Amos
Emma Amos was a postmodern African-American painter and printmaker.
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Out in Front
1982 · Minneapolis Institute of Art
Sandy and Her Husband
1973 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Alison Saar
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Camille Billops
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Lorna Simpson
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Brahna Yassky
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Nancy St. Paul
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Grace Williams
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Martha Wilson
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Moira Roth
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Josely Carvalho
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Helen Ramsaran
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Kay WalkingStick
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Holly Block
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Carol Byard
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Miriam Schapiro
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
India Amos
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Joyce Kozloff
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Petah Coyne
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Fern Logan
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
bell hooks
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Jeri Zempel
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Rose Viggiano
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Lucy Lippard
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Sabra Moore
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Toby MacLennan
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Faith Ringgold
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Joan Semmel
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Shirley King
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Nanette Carter
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Anna Deavere Smith
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Zarina
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Sharon Sutton
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Carol Sun
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Linda Peer
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Mira Schor
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Susan Unterberg
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Renee Green
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Lorraine O'Grady
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Mary Anne Rose
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Emma Amos
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Gift
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Elizabeth Catlett
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Claire Khalil
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Howardena Pindell
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Clarissa Sligh
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Marina Gutierrez
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Judy Blum
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
May Stevens
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Kathy Caraccio
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Vivian Browne
1990–94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Tightrope
1994 · Not on view · Minneapolis Institute of Art
Without Feather Boa
1965 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Gold Face Type
1966 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
3 Ladies
1970 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
American Girl from Impressions: Our World, Volume I
1974 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Pool Lady
1980 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Red Line Drawing
1981 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Take One
1985–87 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Target
1992 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Mississippi Wagon, 1937
1992 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Crown
2002 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Waiting
2005 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Identity from Femfolio
2006, published 2009 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Without Feather Boa
1965 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
Baby
1966 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
3 Ladies
1970 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
Pool Lady
1980 · Not on view · Minneapolis Institute of Art
Black Dog Blues
1983 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
Ku Klux Klan: Miles, India, artist Emma and brother Larry, c. 1944, Atlanta. Memory of being pulled over by police marching in an evening Klan march just outside of Atlanta.
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Irene, India and Friends at Graduations: Irene Dobbs Jackson at twelve or thirteen in Atlanta. One of the five beautiful Dobbs sisters, including Mattiwilda, the Metropolitan Opera singer. Dr. Jackson is a retired Professor of French and the mother of Atlanta's Mayor Maynard Jackson. The young women on the porch are friends gathering after graduating from high school before going off to college. In the middle is India Amos and top left, Irene Dobbs, all eighteen.
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Odyssey
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
lndia Miles and the Children's Party: India Amos, the artist's mother, c. 1920 at twelve or thirteen years old, Atlanta. Miles G. Amos, the artist's father, c. 1920, as a Wilberforce College student, Ohio. India (with big bow) at sixth birthday party in 1914 on the porch of her backyard doll house.
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Grandma Emma: the artist's grandmother Emma Holmes Amos, part Cherokee, African, and Norwegian, c. 1898 when she had graduated from college and was a teacher in an Atlanta School
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Freedom March: the artist moving on and leaving Atlanta in 1960, Muhammed Ali (representing black males) and the halls of justice flying through the air and on the march for civil rights.
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Trio: three young men on a beach, c. 1918; edition of three.
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Tea Ladies: Emma Holmes Amos and her friends dressed in Japanese kimonos and hairstyles for a Sunday tea party in Atlanta, c. 1900.
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Georgia Pharmacists: Moses Amos and the Georgia Board of Pharmacists, c. 1914, from an article in a 1928 issue of the Dixie Pharmaceutical Journal Amos was the first licensed black pharmacist in the state of Georgia.
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Hunting: Moses Amos (the artist's grandfather), born 1866; a hunting friend of educator Booker T. Washington.
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Mules and Men: A story from the book Mules and Men, by Zora Neale Hurston, Indiana University Press, 1935.
1988 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Sisters
1993 · Not on view · Harvard Art Museums
Sold
1994 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
About Whiteness (Red)
1995 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
Coloring Lesson
1995 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
Crown
2002 · Not on view · Minneapolis Institute of Art
How Time Flies
2004 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art