Amy Worthen - Publications, etc., in Art History

PUBLICATIONS EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED LECTURES, ETC.

Selected Publications

Apocalypse: Prophecies and Visions (exhibition catalogue, 200 pp., illustrated), Des Moines Art Center, 2001.

Fruits and Flowers Carefully Drawn from Nature: 19th Century Lithographs from the Amana Colonies (exhibition catalogue, 23 pp., illustrated), Des Moines Art Center, 2000.

MCM - Y2K: A Century of Art on Paper (exhibition catalogue), Des Moines Art Center, 1999

"Works on Paper” (essay) and three catalogue entries in The Des Moines Art Center: An Uncommon Vision, Des Moines, 1998.

Catalogue essay for the exhibition In a Man's Brain: Images of Women from the Print Collection of the Hunterian Gallery. Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University, 1997.

“Engraving, Technique and History" (11,000 word article and one original illustration), in The Dictionary of Art, 1996.

"Kathe Kollwitz" (catalogue essay) in Hannah Höch, Käthe Kollwitz, Jean Mammen: Three Berlin Artists of the Weimar Era, Des Moines Art Center, 1994.

"Calligraphic Inscriptions on Dutch Mannerist Prints", in Goltzius Studies, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, v. 42-43, Amsterdam, 1993.

(Book review) Giorgio Morandi and Giorgio Morandi: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen in Drawing, Vol. XIII, No. 6, March - April 1992, p. 134 - 135.

The Louise Noun Collection: Art by Women, Joanne Conklin, ed. (University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, 1990). Eleven catalogue entries on works by Morisot, Valadon, Kahlo, Krasner, Lane, Kollwitz, Medina, Torrence

I Maestri della Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, (Catalogue and introduction,) Drake University, Des Moines, 1989

Catalogue entries, Iowa Printmakers: Prints by Seven Faculty Members of the Des Moines Art Center, Drake University, the University of Iowa, exhibition catalogue, Centro Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, 1989

Renaissance Manuscript and Printed Book Pages, (gallery guide) Des Moines Art Center, 1989

"Collaborative Printmaking: The Historical Context", in Recent Prints from American Print Workshops, (Mt. Vernon, IL: Mitchell Museum touring exhibition catalogue, 1986)

"Morandi colorista-incisore in bianco e nero", (in Italian) Quaderni Morandiani I, (Bologna: Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Archivio e Centro Studi Giorgio Morandi, 1985)

The Prints of J.N Darling, Brunnier Gallery and Museum, exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné. Ames, IA: Iowa State University, 1984; 2nd. ed. 1991, Iowa State University Press.

"Giorgio Morandi as an Etcher", in Giorgio Morandi,, catalogue of the exhibition organized by the Des Moines Art Center, 1981. Also shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, NY)

"Morandi als Radierer" (in German), Giorgio Morandi: Ölbilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen, (Munich: Haus der Kunst, 1981, exhibition catalogue)

Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry: Selected Lithographs, (Iowa Arts Council exhibition catalogue, Des Moines, 1978)

The Etchings of Jacques Bellange, (exhibition catalogue) with Sue Welsh Reed, (Des Moines Art Center, 1975)

"Jacques Bellange: Some Questions", in The Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol. VI, no. 5, Nov. /Dec. 1975.

"Antwerp Prints and Drawings", (colloquium review) in The Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol. VIII, no. 5, 1977

"Prints in Words", in The Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol. V, no. 3, 1974 (on poetry and prints)

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Selected Exhibitions organized

Exhibition curator [black typeface]
Exhibition co-curator [brown typeface]

Love Stories, Des Moines Art Center, 2006

David Chipperfield: Four Civic Projects, Des Moines Art Center, 2006

To All Gates: The Delightful Land, Des Moines Art Center, 2005

Small Miracles, Des Moines Art Center, 2005 (gallery guide)

Emotions: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Des Moines Art Center, 2005 (gallery guide)

Weary and Dissatisfied with Everything, Des Moines Art Center, 2004 (gallery guide)

Paper Cuts, Des Moines Art Center, 2004 (gallery guide)

AE: Abstract Expressionists on Paper, Des Moines Art Center, 2004 (gallery guide)

Body Language, Des Moines Art Center, 2003 (gallery guide)

Death and Flowers, Des Moines Art Center, 2002-2003 (gallery guide)

Modernists on Paper, Des Moines Art Center, 2002 (gallery guide)

The Art of Healing, Des Moines Art Center. 2002 (gallery guide), with Dr. Craig and Kimberly Shadur

Expressionist Woodcuts, Des Moines Art Center, 2002 (gallery guide)

Apocalypse: Prophecies and Visions, Des Moines Art Center, 2001 - 2002, (catalogue)

Twenty Year of Print Club Gifts, Des Moines Art Center, 2000 (gallery guide)

Subject/Object, Des Moines Art Center, 2000 (gallery guide)

A London Pilgrimage, Des Moines Art Center (autumn 2000), with Laura Burkhalter (gallery guide)

Carefully Drawn from Nature: 19th Century Prints from the Amana Colonies, Des Moines Art Center, summer 2000 (gallery guide)

WaterWorks, Des Moines Art Center, 2000 (gallery guide)

Collage in the 20th Century, Des Moines Art Center, 2000 (gallery guide)

MCM - Y2K: A Century of Art on Paper, Des Moines Art Center, 1999 (catalogue)

Let the People Decide, Des Moines Art Center, 1999 (co-curated with Jeff Fleming; gallery guide)

David Hockney: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Des Moines Art Center, 1999 (gallery guide)

Mary Cassatt: Gathering Fruit, Des Moines Art Center, 1999 (gallery guide)

Portraits and Self-Portraits of Artists, Des Moines Art Center, 1999 (gallery guide)

The Well-Rounded Image, Des Moines Art Center, 1999 (gallery guide)

Prints and Poetry, Des Moines Art Center, 1999 (gallery guide)

Seeing Double, Des Moines Art Center, 1999 (gallery guide)

Masterworks on Paper: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, Des Moines Art Center, 1998-1999 (main gallery exhibition, gallery guide)

Five Faculty Artists from the École des beaux-arts de Saint-Étienne, Polk County Heritage Gallery, Des Moines, 1993. (catalogue). Sponsored by the Greater Des Moines Sister City Commission

Renaissance Manuscripts and Printed Book Pages. Des Moines Art Center, 1990 (gallery guide)

Iowa Printmakers: Prints by Seven Faculty Members of the Des Moines Art Center, Drake University, The University of Iowa. Galleria Segno Grafico and the Centro Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, 1989. Also shown at Drake University, fall 1990 (catalogue)

I Maestri della Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, Drake University, 1989. Also shown at the Sioux City Art Center, Spring, 1990. (catalogue)

Prints by Leonard Baskin, Des Moines Art Center, 1986 (gallery guide)

The Prints of J.N. Darling, Brunnier Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, 1984. Also shown at Muscatine Art Center; Witter Gallery, Storm Lake; Luther College, Decorah; Sioux City Public Museum; Montgomery Gallery, U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Missouri Valley; Polk County Heritage Gallery, Des Moines; Dubuque Art Association. (catalogue)

Giorgio Morandi, Des Moines Art Center, 1981. Curated by James Demetrion. Also shown at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)

Benton, Curry, Wood: Selected Lithographs, traveling exhibition, Iowa Arts Council, 1977

The Etchings of Jacques Bellange, Des Moines Art Center. Co-curator with Sue Welsh Reed. Also shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1975-1976

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Lectures, Panels, Juries, and Guest Residencies

2004 Omaha, NE Artist Fellowship juror, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

2003 Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University. (on J.N. Darling)

2002 Minneapolis, MN. Print Council of America meeting at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
"Printers' experiments in scientific and mathematical typography, color printing,
and functioning gadgets in 15th-century Venetian books."

1998 Lawrence, KS. University of Kansas, Print Council of America Annual Meeting
(on Jacques Bellange)

1997 Cleveland, OH. Cleveland Museum of Art (on Jacques Bellange)
Ames, IA. Iowa State University, Brunnier Museum (on In a Man's Brain: Images of Women)

1994 Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Art Center (on Goya's Disasters of War)
Venice, Italy. Centro Internazionale di Grafica (on Morandi)
Venice, Italy. Scuola di Grafica (on German Expressionist prints)
Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Art Center (symposium panel on Höch, Kollwitz, Mammen)

1990 Iowa City, IA. University of Iowa Museum of Art (on Frida Kahlo)
Iowa City, IA. University of Iowa Museum of Art (on women printmakers)
Princeton, NJ. Princeton University, Print Council of America Annual Meeting
(panel on teaching the history of prints)

1989 Wausau, WI. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum (on J.N. Darling)

1988 Iowa City, IA. University of Iowa Museum of Art (on Matisse's prints)

1987 Ames, IA. Iowa State University, Brunnier Gallery and Museum (on J.N.Darling)

1986 Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Art Center (on Leonard Baskin)

1984 Ames, IA. Iowa State University, Brunnier Gallery and Museum (on J.N. Darling)
Des Moines, IA. Iowa Arts Council Arts Caucus (Visual Arts Panel)
Bologna, Italy. Galleria d'Arte Moderna (on Giorgio Morandi)
Washington, DC. National Museum of American Art (on J.N. Darling)

1982 Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Art Center (on Giorgio Morandi)
Chicago, IL. Chicago International Art Exposition, (Print Session Panel)

1981 Freiburg-im-Breisgau Sammlung Morat (on Giorgio Morandi)

1975 Boston, MA. Museum of Fine Arts, Print Club (on Jacques Bellange)

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2004	Omaha, NE Artist Fellowship juror, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
2003	Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University. (on J.N. Darling)
2002	Minneapolis, MN. Print Council of America meeting at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "Printers' experiments in scientific and mathematical typography, color printing, and functioning gadgets in 15th-century Venetian books."
1998	Lawrence, KS. University of Kansas, Print Council of America Annual Meeting (on Jacques Bellange)
1997	Cleveland, OH. Cleveland Museum of Art (on Jacques Bellange) Ames, IA. Iowa State University, Brunnier Museum (on In a Man's Brain: Images of Women)
1994	Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Art Center (on Goya's Disasters of War) Venice, Italy. Centro Internazionale di Grafica (on Morandi) Venice, Italy. Scuola di Grafica (on German Expressionist prints) Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Art Center (symposium panel on Höch, Kollwitz, Mammen)
1990	Iowa City, IA. University of Iowa Museum of Art (on Frida Kahlo) Iowa City, IA. University of Iowa Museum of Art (on women printmakers) Princeton, NJ. Princeton University, Print Council of America Annual Meeting (panel on teaching the history of prints)
1989	Wausau, WI. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum (on J.N. Darling)
1988	Iowa City, IA. University of Iowa Museum of Art (on Matisse's prints)
1987	Ames, IA. Iowa State University, Brunnier Gallery and Museum (on J.N.Darling)
1986	Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Art Center (on Leonard Baskin)
1984	Ames, IA. Iowa State University, Brunnier Gallery and Museum (on J.N. Darling) Des Moines, IA. Iowa Arts Council Arts Caucus (Visual Arts Panel) Bologna, Italy. Galleria d'Arte Moderna (on Giorgio Morandi) Washington, DC. National Museum of American Art (on J.N. Darling)
1982	Des Moines, IA. Des Moines Art Center (on Giorgio Morandi) Chicago, IL. Chicago International Art Exposition, (Print Session Panel)
1981	Freiburg-im-Breisgau Sammlung Morat (on Giorgio Morandi)
1975	Boston, MA. Museum of Fine Arts, Print Club (on Jacques Bellange)
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