Object Details
- Artist
- Emma Amos, born Atlanta, GA 1938-Bedford, NH 2020
- Exhibition Label
- I've just always loved yarn. I've loved paint. I've loved anything that could rely on color or just line.
- --Emma Amos
- Emma Amos threaded the fleeting moments of her everyday life as a Black woman into poignant artworks. Winning is a snapshot of the moment a leaping woman becomes airborne. The exultant figure, made of a patchwork of woven swatches, threads, and ribbons, celebrates Amos's commitment to fiber art even as she gained widespread recognition for her paintings and prints.
- From 1961 to 1973 she worked for famed textile designer Dorothy Liebes, and in the 1970s she taught weaving at Threadbare Unlimited in Greenwich Village and the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. Amos even produced the Boston public television program Show of Hands about crafts. Winning is more than just a moment: it indicates Amos's deliberate leap to elevate women's work in her art.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Copyright
- © 1982, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York
- 1982
- Object number
- 2019.15
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting-Mixed Media
- Medium
- acrylic on linen with hand-woven fabric
- Dimensions
- 75 × 64 in. (190.5 × 162.6 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure female\full length
- Record ID
- saam_2019.15
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7407fffa9-6df8-402e-abf4-70da9f7ab5e4
