The Brooklyn Museum community is greatly saddened to learn of the death of Emma Amos (1937 – 2020).
The Brooklyn Museum community is greatly saddened to learn of the death of Emma Amos (1937 – 2020). A pioneering artist, dedicated teacher, and committed activist for racial and gender equity, Amos was a vital presence in the artworld for more than fifty years. The Brooklyn Museum is proud to have celebrated her accomplishments in major thematic exhibitions including Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties (2014) and Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2018). Amos’s remarkable 1966 self-portrait Flower Sniffer was included in our 2017 show We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-1985. Featuring the artist as a solitary, contemplative, and perhaps apprehensive young woman, Flower Sniffer captures an understated but determined act of rebellion, as Amos famously said, “For me, a Black woman artist, to walk into the studio was a political act.” In Flower Sniffer, Amos resolutely announces the creative ambitions that defined her career.⠀Emma Amos (American, born 1937). Flower Sniffer, 1966. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund, 2017.35. © artist or artist’s estate -- source link
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