Emma Amos
Dream Girl

Dream Girl

© Emma Amos / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Dream Girl
Dream Girl
ArtistAmerican, 1938–2020
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Dream Girl
Date1975
MediumEtching, aquatint, and relief aquatint in colors on wove paper, artist’s proof
DimensionsPlate: 14 7/8 × 17 5/8 in. (37.8 × 44.8 cm)
Sheet: 24 × 26 in. (61 × 66 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2019.303
Non exposé

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Object Type
ProvenancePrivate collection, Philadelphia; [Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, 20th Century Art + Design Auction / African American Fine Art, 15 September 2019, lot 394]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in graphite (cursive), below plate, left: For Gail
Recto: Inscribed in graphite (cursive), below plate, center: Dream Girl
Recto: Signed in graphite (cursive), below plate, right: Emma Amos '75

Verso: Inscribed in graphite, center bottom edge: Plate is worked on paper - caution framer
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom edge: printed for Amos from aquatinted, etched plate, / with color roll by Tony Kirk, 1975. This print is not in the edition because it has a faint roller mark. Emma Amos Aug. 1983
Recto: Watermark, bottom left corner: RIVES

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