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Sandy and Her Husband

1973
(American, 1937–2020)
America
oil on canvas
112.4 x 127.6 cm (44 1/4 x 50 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2018.24
© Emma Amos / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Location: not on view
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The image of the young woman behind the couple is a self-portrait of Amos titled Flower Sniffer (1966), in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

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In Sandy and Her Husband, the dancing couple at the center of the image is joined by Amos herself: the artist inserted herself into the picture by rendering an earlier self-portrait, Flower Sniffer (1966), which hangs on the wall behind the couple. However, even as Amos is part of the composition, she is peripheral to the scene, unseen or ignored by the dancers. From the early 1960s until her death in 2020, Amos made paintings, prints, and textiles celebrating African American identity and culture, and often exploring women’s presence within that heritage.
Oil painting of two stylized people dancing, cheek to cheek, in a vibrant living room. One has a medium-dark skin tone and wears a backless purple dress, dancing with another with a light skin tone wearing a yellow shirt, both smiling with their eyes closed. Behind them in the yellow and green room hangs a painting of a figure with a dark skin tone bending toward flowers, head tilted to look out the frame.

Sandy and Her Husband

1973

Emma Amos

(American, 1937–2020)
America

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