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Irving Amen "Gift of Love" Original Oil on Canvas 30x40 Framed

Description: Irving Amen (1918–2011)   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.   In 1949,he had his first exhibition, held at the New School for Social Research, and his second at the Smithsonian Institution. His traveled throughout Israel, Greece and Turkey in 1960 led to a retrospective at the Art House of Jerusalem.  He has also exhibited at the Library of Congress, and the National Academy of Design   Amen studied in Paris in the 1950’s, upon his return to the United States in 1953, he had a one man show both in New York, and Washington DC.    Amen taught classes in sculptor and printmaking at such schools as the Pratt Institute (1961) and at Notre Dame University (1962).    In his later years he lived and worked in Boca Raton, Florida.   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 also Illustrated the classic, GILGAMESH, for the Limited Editions Club.   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 GraphicArtists.    Amen was s elected a member of Accademia Fiorentina Delle Arti Del Disegno, an organization to which Michelangelo, his idol, belonged. MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS – UNITED STATES 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, D.C. 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 o fFine 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 o fArt – 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  MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC 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 Biblioteheque Nationale – Paris, France Bezalel National Museum – Jerusalem, Israel Auckland City Art Gallery – Auckland, New Zealand Statische Museum – Elberfeld, Germany  

Price: 3250 USD

Location: Glenmoore, Pennsylvania

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Irving Amen "Gift of Love" Original Oil on Canvas 30x40 Framed

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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Artist: Irving Amen

Signed By: Irving Amen

Size: 30x40

Signed: Yes

Material: Canvas

Framing: Framed

Subject: Mother and Child

Type: Painting

Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original

Style: Modernism

Theme: Love

Production Technique: Oil Painting

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Time Period Produced: Approx. 1978

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