Irving Amen Signed Limited Edition Club Gilgamesh Book, 2 Prints and Linocut

Description: Included in the lot are: 1. Limited Edition Club Gilgamesh Book 317/2000 2. Amen signed print Mourning His Friend 1/15(crease in lower middle margin, circled in photo) 3. Amen signed print Ishtar A/P 4. Actual Linocut to make another print that was re-created in the book. It should be noted the size of the prints in the book were modified to fit in the book as described on the signature page, pictured. Actual prints are larger than the book versions. All of my Amen art came from the collection that was donated to Hillel Cincinnati by Amen and was later auctioned off by Main Auction Galleries in Cincinnati and is guaranteed original. IRVING AMEN BIOGRAPHY Amen was born in New York City in 1918. He began drawing at the age of four. At fourteen he won a scholarship to Pratt Institute. With Michelangelo as his idol he spent seven years in Life Classes perfecting his drawing. From 1942 to 1945 he served with the Armed Forces. He headed a Mural Project and executed murals in the United States and Belgium. His first exhibition in woodcut was held at the New School for Social Research in New York, in 1948; his second at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, in 1949. In 1950 the artist studied in Paris. Upon his return he had one-man shows in painting, woodcut and sculpture. In 1953 he travelled throughout Italy, sketching and studying. This resulted in a series of eleven woodcuts, eight etchings and many oils on Venice, Florence, Rome, Padua, Torcello. One of these woodcuts, PIAZZA SAN MARCO #4 and its four woodblocks constitute a permanent exhibit of block printing in color at the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Travel in Israel, Greece and Turkey in 1960 led to a retrospective show at the ARTIST'S HOUSE in Jerusalem. Since then he has had hundreds of one-man shows throught the country in galleries, museums and Universities. His work is included in major international exhibitions and was exhibited in the Far East and Africa under the auspices of the State Department. He is a member of many national and international organizations, and has taught at Pratt Institute and The University of Ntre Dame. Amen's deep love of mankind and hopeful attitude towards life emanate powerfully from his work. The message is inseperable from the form and both communicate his feelings. This has brought him the broadest audience. Commissions: Designed a Peace Medal to commemorate the end of the Viet Nam War. Illustrated the classic, GILGAMESH, for the Limited Editions Club. Created Designs for twelve stained glass windows sixteen feet high depicting the twelve tribes of israil, commissioned by Agudas Achim Synagogue at Columbus, Ohio. His biography is included in the WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA, WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART, WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD, WHO'S WHO IN WORLD JEWRY, and other major reference works. REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS 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 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 of Fine 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. Metropolitan Museum - New York City, N.Y. Museum of Modern Art - 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. 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 of Art - Carnegie Institute - Pittsburg, 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 Institute - Washington, D.C. Huntington Galleries - Huntington, West Virginia Madison Art Center - Madison, Wisconsin Neville Public Museum - Green Bay, Wisconsin Milwaukee Public Library - Milwaukee, Wisconsin REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS (abroad) American Embassies Abroad (partial list) courtesty UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY Amman - Jordan Ankara - Turkey Athens - Greece Beirut - Lebanon Colombo - Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Cotonou - Benin Istanbul - Turkey Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia Managua - Nicaragua Monrovia - Liberia New Delhi - India Port Au Prince - Haiti San Salvadore - El Salvador Teheran - Iran Tel Aviv - Israel MUSEUMS - Abroad Albertina Museum - Vienna, Austria Bibliotheque 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

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Location: West Chester, Ohio

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