Emma Amos

About Whiteness (Red)
1995

A mixed media artwork featuring a large red swirl with a cross-out sign over a central circular image of a figure. Above the swirl, two panels depict figures in Ku Klux Klan robes, with one figure in each panel highlighted in color against a monochrome background. The piece is titled "About Whiteness" and is signed by the artist with the date 1995.

A mixed media artwork featuring a large red swirl with a cross-out sign over a central circular image of a figure. Above the swirl, two panels depict figures in Ku Klux Klan robes, with one figure in each panel highlighted in color against a monochrome background. The piece is titled "About Whiteness" and is signed by the artist with the date 1995.

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Date
1995

Classification
Prints

Medium
Oil and laser transfer on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 22 1/4 × 14 7/8in. (56.5 × 37.8 cm) Image: 22 1/4 × 14 7/8in. (56.5 × 37.8 cm)

Accession number
2015.99

Edition
2/2

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Emma Amos / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/46857

Exhibitions

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017

Aug 18, 2017–Aug 27, 2018

Emma Amos
5 works in the collection

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