“The Reader” by Emma Amos is our #mood all summer long! 📚⛱😎 Pictured at the bottom of an otherwise abstract composition, a reclining, sunglass-wearing woman reads a book. By loosening up the application of paint, the artist makes little distinction between how she depicts the woman and the blocks of color around her. This painting, part of a suite which she referred to as her “attitude paintings,” allowed her to explore the significance of color as it relates to the Black female body, a subject that went on to become a primary focus of her artmaking in future decades. See it for free in our Contemporary Art Gallery on your next visit. ✨ 🎨 Emma Amos, “The Reader,” 1967, oil on canvas in artist’s frame, 41 1⁄8 x 61 1⁄8. #CrystalBridges