Amalia Amaki
Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue, #1

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Artist Amalia Amaki (American, born 1949)American, born 1949

CultureAmerican

Titles

Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue, #1

Date1991

PlaceUnited States

MediumCyanotype on fabric with stitching and applied color

DimensionsCanvas or panel (Each): 60 5/8 × 15 in. (153.9 × 38.1 cm)
Overall: 60 5/8 × 45 in. (154 × 114.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the African American Art Advisory Association

Object number95.172.A-.C

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionDrawing on memories of her mother’s quilting and her father’s love of blues singers such as Billie Holiday, shown here, Amalia Amaki used photography and flag-themed commercial fabric to create tributes to strong Black women who pioneered American music despite the forces that sought to silence and stereotype them.
ProvenanceThe artist, Atlanta; purchased by MFAH, 1995.
Exhibition History"African-American Advisory Association (Five-A)," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 2 –April 7, 2003.

"Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons, and the Blues," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., June 10–September 25, 2005; Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta, January 26–May 13, 2006.

"The Marzio Years: Transforming the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982–2010," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 25, 2020–January 10, 2021.

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