Irving Amen

Irving Amen (b. 1918) is a painter, printmaker and sculptor. Born in New York, New York^[1], he taught at the Pratt Institute and at the University of Notre Dame in the early 1960s. In 1974 he illustrated Gilgamesh through a series of linocuts and woodcuts in 1974. His work often depicts themes of Judaism, chess, people, music, Italy and Don Quixote. He lives and works in Boca Raton, Florida.

Notable collections

• Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
• National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.

References

External links

• Web site of Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio, where his stain glass windows hang in the Irving E. Schottenstein Chapel.