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And Your Ma is Good Looking

Emma Amos

1938-2020

And Your Ma is Good Looking

Acrylic and glitter on canvas with collaged African fabric and African fabric borders.

57 3/8 in x 40 in x 2 in (removable split dowels at top at bottom)

1989

As Exhibited In:

Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, October 25, 2025–January 11, 2026, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, January 25–March 29, 2026

Our Own Work, Our Own Way, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, January 21–May 21, 2023, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA, April 27–September 8, 2024, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, February 9–May 18, 2025

Wider Horizons: Artistic Travel in the Johnson Collection, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, October 14, 2020–January 2, 2021

Is It a True Likeness?, TJC Gallery, Spartanburg, SC, April 19–June 8, 2018

About This Artist