Amy Namowitz Worthen

Amy Namowitz Worthen studied at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, Smith College and University of Iowa. The recorded working language is Italian and English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Des Moines. Residence is recorded at Des Moines and Venice. Employment is recorded with Des Moines Art Center. Work by Amy Namowitz Worthen is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grinnell College and Davidson College.

• Name — Amy Namowitz Worthen • Birth Name — Amy Louise Namowitz • Born — 13 August 1946 • Birthplace — New York City, New York, U.S. • Education — Smith College, University of Iowa • Occupation — Printmaker, engraver, curator, art historian, author • Spouse — Thomas Fletcher Worthen (m. 1968–2018; death)

She was born Amy Louise Namowitz on August 13, 1946, in New York City. 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. In 1968, she married art historian and Drake University professor, Thomas Fletcher Worthen (1944–2018). Together they lived part time in Venice, Italy where they restored an apartment in a historic palazzo. She has also spent considerable time in England, France, Japan, Istanbul, and India. She was the first chair of the Iowa-Veneto Sister State Committee, established in 1997. Her prints are included in the permanent collections of the: Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Iowa State University, Ames; the Van Every Smith Galleries at Davidson College, North Carolina; Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art; and Harvard University.

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The following is established of origins and background. Recorded at birth as Amy Louise Namowitz. Born in 1946 at New York City.

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