Irving Amen, born in NYC in 1918 is known as a master printmaker. He has produced thousands of woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and silk-screen prints. He also creates using oil and acrylic as well as some sculpture. Irving Amen had a studio in NYC for many years but moved to Boca Raton, Florida in the 1990's where he is still producing his art.

He is represented most major art galleries/museums of the world including: Museum of Modern Art in NYC and the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

Many of Amen's work have a Jewish theme. A masterpice is his 12 windows at Congrgation Agudas Achim in Columbus, Ohio depicting the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

Much of Amen's work depicts women and children and music themes. Chess, Venice and Don Quixote are the subject of others.

Amen also taught classes in sculptor and printmaking at such influential schools as the Pratt Institute (1961) and at Notre Dame University (1962).

In 1974, Irving Amen illustrated the classic, Gilgamesh, for the Limited Editions Club with nine 3-color woodcuts and 7 part-page black and white woodcuts and linocuts

External Link

A web site devoted to Amen's work