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PrintsAmerican20th century

First Tree II

1996

Artists

Jules OlitskiArtist

Classification

Prints

Technique

Monoprint

Medium

Monoprint

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

61 × 80 cm (24 × 31 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Jules Olitski, gift; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge (1996-2021), bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

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Hunting: Moses Amos (the artist's grandfather), born 1866; a hunting friend of educator Booker T. Washington.

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Grandma Emma: the artist's grandmother Emma Holmes Amos, part Cherokee, African, and Norwegian, c. 1898 when she had graduated from college and was a teacher in an Atlanta School

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Tea Ladies: Emma Holmes Amos and her friends dressed in Japanese kimonos and hairstyles for a Sunday tea party in Atlanta, c. 1900.

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Irene, India and Friends at Graduations: Irene Dobbs Jackson at twelve or thirteen in Atlanta. One of the five beautiful Dobbs sisters, including Mattiwilda, the Metropolitan Opera singer. Dr. Jackson is a retired Professor of French and the mother of Atlanta's Mayor Maynard Jackson. The young women on the porch are friends gathering after graduating from high school before going off to college. In the middle is India Amos and top left, Irene Dobbs, all eighteen.

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Trio: three young men on a beach, c. 1918; edition of three.

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Georgia Pharmacists: Moses Amos and the Georgia Board of Pharmacists, c. 1914, from an article in a 1928 issue of the Dixie Pharmaceutical Journal Amos was the first licensed black pharmacist in the state of Georgia.

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Ku Klux Klan: Miles, India, artist Emma and brother Larry, c. 1944, Atlanta. Memory of being pulled over by police marching in an evening Klan march just outside of Atlanta.

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