Amy Namowitz Worthen

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Amy Namowitz Worthen
Born
Amy Louise Namowitz

(1946-08-13) August 13, 1946 (age 75)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma materSmith College,
University of Iowa
OccupationPrintmaker, engraver, curator, art historian, author
Spouse(s)Thomas Fletcher Worthen (m. 1968–2018; death)

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

Biography[]

She was born as Amy Louise Namowitz on August 13, 1946, in New York City, New York.[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.[5] She earned an M.A. degree in 1968 at the University of Iowa, studying under Mauricio Lasansky.[5] Additionally she studied lettering-engraving for silversmiths at Sir John Cass College (now London Guildhall University), from 1986 to 1987.[5]

Her engravings are often architectural.[6] In 1989, she was invited to return as a visiting artist at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, thus becoming part of the community of artists and printmakers there. Her studio in Iowa has been featured on local news.[7]

In 1968, she married art historian and Drake University professor, Thomas Fletcher Worthen (1944–2018).[8] Together they lived part time in Venice, Italy where they restored an apartment in a historic palazzo.[8][9][10] She has also spent considerable time in England, France, Japan, Istanbul, and India.[11] She was the first chair of the Iowa-Veneto Sister State Committee, established in 1997.[12]

Her prints are included in the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[13] Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art;[14], Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa;[15] the Van Every Smith Galleries at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina;[16] and the Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, Iowa.[17]

References[]

  1. ^ "City View-Real and Imagined Aspects of Architecture".
  2. ^ "Getty". primo.getty.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  3. ^ Colbourne, Jane; Snyder, Reba Fishman (2009). Printed on Paper: The Techniques, History, and Conservation of Printed Media. Arts and Social Sciences Academic Press, Northumbria University. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-9561206-3-2.
  4. ^ "Amy N Worthen". independent.academia.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  5. ^ a b c d Who's Who in American Art 2003-2004, 25th Ed. Marquis Whos Who. June 2003. ISBN 978-0-8379-6304-4.
  6. ^ "Amy Worthen | Olson-Larsen Galleries". olsonlarsen.com. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  7. ^ Artist's Studio: Amy Worthen, retrieved 2022-03-12
  8. ^ a b "Thomas F. Worthen '66". Amherst College. Retrieved 2021-10-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Thomas F. Worthen Obituary (1944 - 2018)". Legacy.com. Des Moines Register. May 26, 2018. Retrieved 2021-10-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Venice: Once Is Never Enough". dsm Magazine. 2018-02-27. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  11. ^ "Amy Namowitz Worthen Biography". www.annexgalleries.com. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  12. ^ "Amy Worthen". iowasisterstates. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  13. ^ "Amy Namowitz Worthen". americanart.si.edu. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  14. ^ "The Voyage of the "Chiaretta"". Cleveland Museum of Art. 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  15. ^ "Results – Search Objects – eMuseum". emuseum.its.iastate.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  16. ^ "Artist: Amy Namowitz Worthen". Art Collection from Davidson College. Retrieved 2021-10-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ "Amy Namowitz Worthen". Grinnell College Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-10-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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