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Date 1969
Classification Painting
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 36 × 32 ¼ in. (91.4 × 81.9 cm)
Frame 37 ¼ × 33 ¼ in. (94.6 × 84.5 cm)
Inscriptions Signed and dated (lower right)
Born 1918 in New York City, NY
Irving Amen
Irving Amen was a prodigy, earning a scholarship to the prestigious Pratt Institute at only fourteen. He was heavily inspired by his many travels and his Jewish faith. Amen had solo exhibitions at several major institutions and operated his own gallery in New York’s Upper East Side. He was commissioned to design a Peace Medal for the Vietnam War and stained glass windows for the Agudas Achim Synagogue. Irving later taught at Pratt and at the University of Notre Dame.
Died 2011 in Coconut Creek, FL
One Year Of Exhibits (1949):
Smithsonian Institute
Library of Congress
National Academy of Design
Artist’s House (Jerusalem)
