Amy Namowitz Worthen | |
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Born | Amy Louise Namowitz August 13, 1946 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Alma mater | Smith College, University of Iowa |
Occupation(s) | 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]
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.[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 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.[7][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;[18] and Harvard University.[19]