Irving Amen - American Artist 1918

Brief Biography of Irving Amen

Born in New York City, 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 own unique style.
From 1942 to 1945 he served with the Armed Forces. He headed a mural project and executed murals in the United States and Belgium.
He had his first exhibition was at the New School for Social Research in New York and his second at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington in 1949.
His travels throughout Israel, Greece and Turkey in 1960 led to a retrospective at the Artists House in Jerusalem.
He then studied in Paris where he had one-man shows in painting, woodcut and sculpture. Besides practicing his art, Amen also taught classes in sculptor and printmaking at such schools as the Pratt Institute (1961) and at Notre Dame University(1962).
Commissions include a Peace Medal in honor of the Vietnam War and 12 stained glass windows for the Agudas Achim Synagogue in Ohio.
He is listed in Mantle Fielding Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers and the Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists by Paul Cummings.
A positive attitude, love of mankind, and religious background emanate from his work.

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AskArt has a bulletin board to discuss his art. Museums with Irving Amen in their collection Galleries that sell Amen's work

This web site is authorized by Irving Amen.  It was begun Sept 2002 and is is composed of images of Amen's work collected from:

• various site on the web using standard search engines and from eBay auctions

• the webmaster's own collection

• various collectors and admirers of Irving Amen's work who forwarded digital images

This site is a work in progress by a lover of the works this great American Artist. 
If you have images or words that you would like to contribute to the site, please email them to me.

Want to know more about the Printmaking techniques?  Here are a few good sites:

• Wikipedia explains the  various printmaking processes.

• Inside Space has a well illustrated explanation

• How Stone Lithography Works by How Stuff Works is very complete explanation

• Works on Paper - Introduction To Printmaking Processes

• Seasideart.com / Essays on Art

• Meyerovich Glossary

• GLOSSARY OF PRINTS  AND ORIGINAL GRAPHICS TERMS

• explains "What is a Print?"

• Amen, like all printmaker, has woodcuts and lithographs labeled "A/P" for Artist's Proof Wikipedia explains what "A/P" means.  Some say they are more valuable.  Some say they are not more valuable.

• To get up to speed with art try the following glossaries and dictionaries.

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This Page created and maintained by Maureen Greenbaum of Sumware in NJ with the help of Clip Art from various sites Last Updated 05/25/2004