Irving Amen "Aria” Linocut/Lithograph Print Signed Ltd Ed 85/90 Framed, Listed

Description

Mid Century Modern Original Limited Edition Linocut/Lithograph by listed artist and renown printmaker Irving Amen. The print is signed lower … more Mid Century Modern Original Limited Edition Linocut/Lithograph by listed artist and renown printmaker Irving Amen. The print is signed lower right, titled “Aria” and numbered 85/90. Framed and matted under glass in original period frame.

The frame measures 19” x 27”, the sight area is 10.5” x 18.5”. The print is in very good-excellent condition, no issues noted. The upper matte has a horizontal band of fading as shown. I am listing another print by Amen, as well as several mid century modern artworks, please view our offerings.

BIOGRAPHY OF IRVING AMEN

Born in New York City in 1918, Amen began drawing at the age of four. A scholarship to the Pratt Institute was awarded to him when he was fourteen years old, where he was regarded as a prodigy. From 1942 to 1945 he served with the Armed Forces.

His first exhibition of woodcuts was held at the New School for Social Research and his second at the Smithsonian Institution in 1949. He also exhibited at the Artists House in Jerusalem, the Library of Congress, and the National Academy of Design.

Amen studied in Paris in 1950. Upon his return to the United States, he had one man shows in New York and Washington DC.

In 1953, Amen traveled throughout Italy. This resulted in a series of eleven woodcuts, eight etchings and a number of 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 at the Artist's House in Jerusalem. His art is widely owned and loved. Irving Amen has taught at Pratt Institute and at the University of Notre Dame. He had a show of woodcuts at the Artists Studio in NYC.

Commissions include a Peace Medal in honor of the Vietnam War. He created designs for 12 stained glass windows 16 feet high depicting the Twelve Tribes of Israel, commissioned by Agudas Achim Synagogue in Columbus, Ohio.

He is listed in Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers and the Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists by Paul Cummings. Amen was also a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists. He was elected member of Accademia Fiorentina Delle Arti Del Disegno, an organization to which Michelangelo, his idol, belonged.

Amen taught at the Pratt Institute and at the University of Notre Dame in the early 1960s. He died in 2011.



Notable collections – U.S.

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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[12]

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

Albion College – Albion, Michigan

University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Central Missouri State University – Warrensburg, Missouri

Art Gallery University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Nebraska

The Art Museum Princeton University – Princeton, N.J.

Dartmouth College – Hanover, New Hampshire

Rutgers University – New Brunswick, New Jersey

Museum of New Mexico – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Jewish Museum – New York City, N.Y.

New York Public Library – New York City, N.Y.

State University of New York – New Paltz, N.Y.

University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery – Rochester, N.Y.

Syracuse University Art Collection – Syracuse, N.Y.

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina

Salem College – Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Cincinnati Art Museum – Cincinnati, Ohio

Dayton Art Institute – Dayton, Ohio

Butler Institute of American Art – Youngstown, Ohio

Oklahoma Museum of Art – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Coos Art Museum – Coos Bay, Oregon

Oregon State University – Corvallis, Oregon

Lehigh University – Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

City of Philadelphia Public Library – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Museum of Art – Carnegie Institute – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Charleston Museum – Charleston, South Carolina

Colombia Museum of Art – Columbia, South Carolina

Brooks Memorial Art Gallery – Memphis, Tennessee

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts – Richmond, Virginia

Corcoran Gallery of Art – Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress – Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian American Art Museum – Washington, D.C.

Huntington Galleries – Huntington, West Virginia

Madison Art Center – Madison, Wisconsin

Neville Public Museum – Green Bay, Wisconsin

Milwaukee Public Library – Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Notable collections – international

Albertina Museum – Vienna, Austria

Bibliothèque Royal – Brussels, Belgium

University Art Museum – Edmonton, Canada

Fitzwilliam Museum – Cambridge, England

Usher Gallery – Lincolnshire, England

Victoria and Albert Museum – London, England[16]

Biblioteheque Nationale – Paris, France[17]

Bezalel National Museum – Jerusalem, Israel

Auckland City Art Gallery – Auckland, New Zealand

Statische Museum – Elberfeld, Germany


Commissions

Designed a Peace Medal to commemorate the end of the Vietnam War.

Illustrated the classic, GILGAMESH, for the Limited Editions Club.

Created Designs for twelve stained glass windows sixteen feet high depicting the twelve tribes of Israel, commissioned by Agudas Achim Synagogue at Columbus, Ohio.

*Irving Amen biography courtesy of Wikipedia less