{"id":59712,"date":"2020-06-14T00:38:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T00:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59712"},"modified":"2020-06-14T00:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T00:59:37","slug":"emma-amos-painter-who-challenged-racism-and-sexism-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59712","title":{"rendered":"Emma Amos, Painter Who Challenged Racism and Sexism, Dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Amos, Painter Who Challenged Racism and Sexism, Dies at 83<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2020-05-29<\/p>\n

Holland Cotter<\/strong><\/a>, co-chief art critic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe artist Emma Amos<\/a> with her 2006 work \u201cHead First.\u201d Her paintings often depicted women flying or falling. Becket Logan<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Early in her career she created brightly colored scenes of black middle-class domestic life. Her later work was increasingly personal and experimental.<\/em><\/p>\n

Emma Amos<\/a>, an acclaimed figurative artist whose high-color paintings of women flying or falling through space were charged with racial and feminist politics, died on May 20 at her home in Bedford, N.H.<\/a> She was 83.<\/p>\n

The cause was complications of Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>, said the Ryan Lee Gallery in Manhattan, which represents her.<\/p>\n

A key event in Ms. Amos\u2019s career came in 1964. A 27-year-old graduate student in art education at New York University, she was invited to join a newly formed artists group called Spiral<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Its members, all African-American, included Charles Alston<\/a>, Romare Bearden<\/a>, Norman Lewis<\/a> and the muralist Hale Woodruff<\/a> \u2014 midcareer artists with substantial reputations. Organized in response to the 1963 March on Washington<\/a>, the group was formed to discuss and debate the political role of black artists and their work…<\/p>\n

…Emma Veoria Amos was born on March 16, 1937, in Atlanta<\/a> from a lineage that was, by her own account, \u201cAfrican, Cherokee, Irish, Norwegian and God knows what else.\u201d Her parents, India DeLaine Amos and Miles Green Amos, were cousins. Her father, a graduate of Wilberforce University in Ohio<\/a>, was a pharmacist; her mother, who had a degree in anthropology from Fisk University in Nashville<\/a>, managed the family-owned Amos Drug Store…<\/p>\n

Read the obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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