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Black Dog Blues

A brightly colored textile work shows two women on either side and a dog in between them. The woman on the left is light-skinned and dances—her arms upraised, her right leg bent behind her—in a vibrant pink leotard. The other woman—dark-skinned with dark hair radiating from her head at all angles and wearing a dark blue full body suit—stands facing forward, looking at the viewer with a finger raised at us.
Emma Amos; courtesy of RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.

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  • A brightly colored textile work shows two women on either side and a dog in between them. The woman on the left is light-skinned and dances—her arms upraised, her right leg bent behind her—in a vibrant pink leotard. The other woman—dark-skinned with dark hair radiating from her head at all angles and wearing a dark blue full body suit—stands facing forward, looking at the viewer with a finger raised at us.

Date:

1983

Artist:

Emma Amos
American, 1937-2020

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Emma Amos

Title

Black Dog Blues

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1983

Medium

Acrylic on canvas with hand-woven fabric

Inscriptions

Signed Amos by the artist, lower right

Dimensions

132.1 × 193 cm (52 × 76 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Society for Contemporary Art

Reference Number

2020.338

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