Amy Namowitz Worthen Explained

Amy Namowitz Worthen
Birth Name:Amy Louise Namowitz
Birth Date:13 August 1946
Birth Place:New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma Mater:Smith College,
University of Iowa
Occupation:Printmaker, engraver, curator, art historian, author
Spouse:Thomas Fletcher Worthen (m. 1968–2018; death)

Amy Namowitz Worthen (née Amy Louise Namowitz; born 1946) is an American printmaker, engraver, curator, art historian of prints and author.[1] [2] She is the Emerita Curator of Prints at the Des Moines Art Center.[3] [4]

Biography

She was born Amy Louise Namowitz on August 13, 1946, in New York City.[5] Worthen studied at the High School of Music and Art (which is now part of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School). Worthen attended Smith College and received a B.A. degree in 1967, studying under Leonard Baskin. She earned an M.A. degree in 1968 at the University of Iowa, studying under Mauricio Lasansky. Additionally she studied lettering-engraving for silversmiths at Sir John Cass College (now London Guildhall University), from 1986 to 1987.

Her engravings are often architectural.[6]

In 1968, she married art historian and Drake University professor, Thomas Fletcher Worthen (1944–2018).[7] Together they lived part time in Venice, Italy where they restored an apartment in a historic palazzo.[8] [9] She has also spent considerable time in England, France, Japan, Istanbul, and India.[10] She was the first chair of the Iowa-Veneto Sister State Committee, established in 1997.[11]

Her prints are included in the permanent collections of the: Smithsonian American Art Museum;[12] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art; [13] Iowa State University, Ames;[14] the Van Every Smith Galleries at Davidson College, North Carolina;[15] Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa;[16] the Metropolitan Museum of Art;[17] the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art;[18] and Harvard University.[19]

References

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Duncan . Jim . 6 December 2017 . Real and Imagined Aspects of Architecture . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220526053037/https://www.dmcityview.com/art-news/2017/12/06/real-and-imagined-aspects-of-architecture/ . 26 May 2022 . 26 April 2023 . City View.
  2. Web site: 1991 . Book: The prints of J.N. Darling by Amy N. Worthen . 12 March 2022 . Getty Library Catalog . en . Library record for book.
  3. Book: Colbourne. Jane. Printed on Paper: The Techniques, History, and Conservation of Printed Media. Snyder. Reba Fishman. 2009. Arts and Social Sciences Academic Press, Northumbria University. 978-0-9561206-3-2. 227. en.
  4. Web site: Amy N Worthen . 2022-03-12 . independent.academia.edu.
  5. Book: Who's Who in American Art 2003-2004, 25th Ed. June 2003. Marquis Whos Who. 978-0-8379-6304-4. en.
  6. Web site: Amy Worthen . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230426215508/https://olsonlarsen.com/artist/amy-worthen . 26 April 2023 . 12 March 2022 . Olson-Larsen Galleries.
  7. Web site: Thomas F. Worthen '66. 2021-10-16. Amherst College.
  8. Web site: May 26, 2018. Thomas F. Worthen Obituary (1944 - 2018). 2021-10-16. Legacy.com. Des Moines Register.
  9. Web site: Roberson . Kelly . 27 February 2018 . Venice: Once Is Never Enough . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220820045358/https://dsmmagazine.com/2018/02/27/venice-once-is-never-enough/ . 20 August 2022 . 12 March 2022 . dsm Magazine . en-US.
  10. Web site: Amy Namowitz Worthen Biography . 2022-03-12 . www.annexgalleries.com.
  11. Web site: Amy Worthen . 2022-03-12 . iowasisterstates . en.
  12. Web site: Amy Namowitz Worthen . Smithsonian American Art Museum . americanart.si.edu.
  13. Web site: 2018-10-31 . The Voyage of the "Chiaretta" . 2022-03-12 . Cleveland Museum of Art . en.
  14. Web site: Results – Search Objects – eMuseum . 2022-03-12 . emuseum.its.iastate.edu.
  15. Web site: Artist: Amy Namowitz Worthen . 2021-10-16 . Art Collection from Davidson College . en.
  16. Web site: Amy Namowitz Worthen . 2021-10-16 . Grinnell College Museum of Art.
  17. Web site: The Met . 2023-01-24 . www.metmuseum.org.
  18. Web site: The University of Iowa .
  19. Web site: Harvard University .
  20. Web site: Search Omeka (3 total) · Iowa Heritage Digital Collections . 2024-01-29 . www.iowaheritage.org.

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