Irving Amen Paintings
American, 1918-2011
Born in New York City, Irving Amen began drawing at the young age of four. By the time he was fourteen-years-old, he won a scholarship to the Pratt Institute. He emulated Michelangelo's masterpieces and spent years perfecting his unique style. From 1942–45, Amen served with the Armed Forces. He headed a mural project and executed murals in the United States and Belgium. He had his first exhibition at the New School for Social Research in New York and his second at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington in 1949. Amen studied in Paris in 1950. Upon his return to the United States, he had one-man shows in New York and Washington D.C. In 1953, Amen traveled throughout Italy. This resulted in a series of eleven woodcuts, eight etchings and several oil paintings. One of these woodcuts, Piazza San Marco #4 and its four woodblocks constitute a permanent exhibit of block printing in color at the Smithsonian Institution. Travel in Israel, Greece and Turkey in 1960 led to a retrospective show in Jerusalem. His art is widely owned and loved. Amen has taught at Pratt Institute and the University of Notre Dame. Commissions include a Peace Medal in honor of the Vietnam War and 12 stained glass windows for the Congregation Agudas Achim in Ohio. He is listed in the Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers and the Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists by Paul Cummings.
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Creator: Irving Amen
Bearing Gifts, Framed Lithograph 3/90 by Irving Amen
By Irving Amen
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Outstanding color lithograph, titled “Bearing Gifts” from 1950s and annotated 3/90, signed by American artist Irving Amen.
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National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The National Gallery of Art Washington
University of South Alabama – Mobile, Alabama
Arizona State University – Tempe, Arizona
Tucson Museum of Art – Tucson, Arizona
Arkansas Art Center Foundation – Little Rock, Arkansas
Arkansas State University – State University, Arkansas
Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum – Berkeley, California
Skirball Museum Hebrew Union College – Los Angeles, California'
Mills College – Oakland, California
Stanford University Museum of Art – Stanford, California
Hausatonic Museum – Bridgeport, Connecticut
Yale University – New Haven, Connecticut
University of Georgia – Athens, Georgia
Honolulu Academy of Arts – Honolulu, Hawaii
Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, Illinois
Quincy College Art Gallery – Quincy, Illinois
Rosary College – River Forest, Illinois
Illinois State Museum – Springfield, Illinois
Lafayette Art Center – Lafayette, Indiana
Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame – Notre Dame, Indiana
Davenport Municipal Art Gallery – Davenport, Iowa
Des Moines Art Center – Des Moines, Iowa
University of Maine Art Gallery – Orono, Maine
Baltimore Museum of Art – Baltimore, Maryland
Boston Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, Massachusetts
Harvard Art Museum – Boston, Massachusetts
Town of Brookline Public Library – Brookline, Massachusetts
Fogg Art Museum – Cambridge, Massachusetts
De Cordova and Dana Museum – Lincoln, Massachusetts
Art Museum Mount Holyoke College – South Hadley, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts – Springfield, Massachusetts
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