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EMMA AMOS (1937 - 2020) Gold Face Type.
Color screenprint on cream wove paper, 1966. 469x331 mm; 18 1/2x13 3/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 3/22 in pencil, lower margin.
A very good impression of this rare, early screenprint, with vibrant colors. Another impression is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
In 1960, Amos moved to New York and made prints in Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. In 1964, she became the sole female member of the Spiral Group collective. By 1966, the group disbanded and Amos completed her MA in art education from New York University. The same year Amos was painting dynamic, colorful portraits that defied conventions like Baby,1966, collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Flower Sniffer, collection of the Brooklyn Museum. In Gold Face Type, Amos created an inventive self-portrait - one in which she is both reflectively looking over her shoulder and directly confronting the viewer.
