- Also known as
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Alex Katz
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primary name: Katz, Alex
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; American (USA); Male
- Life dates
- 1927-
- Biography
- American painter, sculptor and printmaker. Born in Brooklyn, lives in New York and Lincolnville, Maine. Studied at Cooper Union, NYC, 1946-49; Skowhegan School, Maine, 1949-50; Since 1954 spends summer in Lincolnville, associated with nearby Colby College; Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1972; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1988; Returned to Cooper Union as a Visiting Chair in Painting, 1994. Belongs to a tradition of figure painting going back to Manet and Matisse, with the American strand of Eakins and Hopper.
- Bibliography
- Nicholas P. Maravell, 'Alex Katz: the complete prints', with an interview by Carter Ratcliff, New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1983
Klaus Albrecht Schröder and Marietta Mautner Markhof with Gunhild Bauer (eds), 'Alex Katz Prints: catalogue raisonné 1947-2011', with contributions by Gunhild Bauer, Vivien Bittencourt, Vincent Katz, Marietta Mautner Markhof and Carter Ratcliff, Ostfildern and Vienna: Hatje Cantz Verlag in association with the Albertina, 2011
