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Details
- Dimensions
- 20.5ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 22.5ʺH
- Styles
- Portraiture
- Art Subjects
- Mythology
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Artist
- Irving Amen
- Period
- 1960s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Etching
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Overall good antique condition. Overall good antique condition. less
- Description
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Irving Amen (1918-2011) MCM "Mask Medusa" large etching on paper, pencil signed, titled and numbered 3 of 30.
A twentieth … more Irving Amen (1918-2011) MCM "Mask Medusa" large etching on paper, pencil signed, titled and numbered 3 of 30.
A twentieth century sculptor, painter, etcher, silk-screen and woodcut artist, at the age of fourteen, Irving Amen won a scholarship to Pratt Institute, where he studied from 1932 to 1939. Amen also studied at the Art Students League in New York and the Academy Grande Chaumiere in Paris. He had his first exhibition in New York at the New School for Social Research in the 1940s, and in 1949, Amens was given a one-man exhibition at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. Travels throughout Israel, Greece and Turkey in 1960 led to a retrospective show at the Artists House in Jerusalem
In the early 1960s, Amen taught sculpture and printmaking classes at the Pratt Institute (1961) and at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana (1962). During the 1960s through 1980s, Amen's work was exhibited with the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Library of Congress and the National Academy of Design. Among his commissions were a Peace Medal commemorating the end of the Viet Nam war and for a synagogue in Columbus, Ohio, designed a stained glass window of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
Amen's work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. less
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