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EMMA AMOS (1938 - 2020) Miss Otis.
Silk aquatint with textile chine-collé on Arches paper, 2002. 622x528 mm; 24 1/2x20 7/8 inches, full margins. Printer's proof, aside from an edition of 25. Signed and inscribed "Printer's Proof" in pencil, lower margin. Printed at the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia.
Provenance: Anne and Allan Edmunds Collection.
Illustrated: Allan L. Edmunds, ed. and Halima Taha. Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection, pl. 153, p. 119.
Additional impressions are in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art.
The subject of Amos's print refers to the 1934 Cole Porter song Miss Otis Regrets which recounts the story of a young woman who, after being seduced and then spurned, tracks down and shoots her former lover in a rage. Following her arrest, she is taken from jail by a mob and lynched. The narrator conveys the final, polite apology of the once proper Miss Otis to her friends: "Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today."
Consigned to support the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia and its legacy endowment campaign.
