Artwork Details
- Title
- Winning
- Artist
- Date
- 1982
- Location
- Dimensions
- 75 × 64 in. (190.5 × 162.6 cm)
- Copyright
- © 1982, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Mediums Description
- acrylic on linen with hand-woven fabric
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Figure female — full length
- Object Number
- 2019.15
Artwork Description
I've just always loved yarn. I've loved paint. I've loved anything that could rely on color or just line.
--Emma Amos
Emma Amos threaded the fleeting moments of her everyday life as a Black woman into poignant artworks. Winning is a snapshot of the moment a leaping woman becomes airborne. The exultant figure, made of a patchwork of woven swatches, threads, and ribbons, celebrates Amos's commitment to fiber art even as she gained widespread recognition for her paintings and prints.
From 1961 to 1973 she worked for famed textile designer Dorothy Liebes, and in the 1970s she taught weaving at Threadbare Unlimited in Greenwich Village and the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. Amos even produced the Boston public television program Show of Hands about crafts. Winning is more than just a moment: it indicates Amos's deliberate leap to elevate women's work in her art.
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