Oral history interview with Emma Amos
name: label: Interviewee
content: Amos, Emma, 1937-2020
label: Interviewer
content: Murray, Albert
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: African American painters
label: Topic
content: African American printmakers
label: Topic
content: Art and race
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others. Funding for this interview provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Amos, Emma, 1937-2020
label: Interviewer
content: Murray, Albert
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Emma Amos (1937-2020) was a painter and printmaker in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 30 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968 October 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.amos68
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Item is a transcript. Location of original audio recording is unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Emma Amos conducted 1968 October 3, by Al Murray, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Amos speaks of the development of her interest in art and her early influences, her education at Antioch, Black politics and the problems facing Black artists, image problems among Black people, her travels in Europe, her interests in different media, and the effect of marriage and motherhood on her work.