The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok6/1/2023 ![]() He continues to produce art, teach, and speak on topics of art, art history, and aesthetics around the country. From 1999-2001 Clutter was art critic for the Boise Weekly newspaper in Boise, Idaho. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters in 1997 from La Sierra University. Potok wrote many plays, among them Sins of The Father and Out of The Depths. ![]() It won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. ![]() In 1990, he published a sequel to My Name is Asher Lev titled The Gift of Asher Lev. He also served as the Director of the international art non-profit CIVA from 2003-2008. Potoks novel The Promise received the Anthenaeum Prize, and his novel The Gift of Asher Lev was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Potok's 1985 novel Davita's Harp is his only book featuring a female protagonist. Tyrus has taught art and art history at colleges and universities since 1995. Clutter’s work can be found in several hundred private collections as well as in the Print Collection of the New York Public Library, and the collections of the Museum of Biblical Art, the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Spring Arbor University, Calvin College and Union University. His work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout North America and in Europe. ![]() In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination. He holds a BA in Art from Spring Arbor University and an MFA in Painting from Bowling Green State University. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him to blasphemy. ![]() Tyrus Clutter is a painter and printmaker who was born and grew up in Michigan. ![]()
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