Mid 20th Century Irving Amen Signed Numbered Woodcut "Many Children Dwell in Father's House

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This is an original color woodcut by Irving Amen, an American master printmaker whose work is held in the permanent … Read more This is an original color woodcut by Irving Amen, an American master printmaker whose work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Vatican, and the Library of Congress. Amen won a scholarship to the Pratt Institute at just 14 years old and was regarded as a prodigy early on, later studying at the Art Students League in New York before his art was shaped further by extensive travel through Italy and Israel. He worked across woodcut, etching, lithography, painting, and sculpture, and blended Cubism, Expressionism, and folk-art sensibility into a style that reads as instantly his own. Titled "Many Children Dwell in My Father's House," this piece depicts six children gathered at a table beneath a radiant sunburst, each face carved with its own distinct expression and character. The table itself is a field of intricate geometric pattern work, packed with the kind of symbolic detail Amen used throughout his career to speak to themes of family, unity, and shared humanity. The palette is warm and restrained, built from black, gold, and soft blue-green, giving the piece a stained-glass quality that reads beautifully at a distance and rewards close inspection up close. It's hand-signed "Amen" in pencil and numbered 149 from a limited edition of 200, with the title inscribed by the artist himself in the lower margin exactly as his authenticated work is marked. The piece is presented under glass in a gold frame with a black-and-gold mat, clean and ready to hang. It's sourced from a private Brookline, Massachusetts estate collection, part of a small grouping of quality mid-century prints that came out of the same home. Amen's religious and family-themed prints from this period are among his most sought-after subjects in galleries and auction houses. Owning a museum-collected artist's numbered print at this level is genuinely rare on the secondary market. See less