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January ©1993 Alex Katz |
Brisk Day III 1990 Woodcut 36.25 x 29.125 inches Edition of 150 Published by Marlborough Graphics, NY © 1990 Alex Katz |
Internationally recognized painter and printmaker, Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. He studied in New York and in Skowhegan, Maine. Over a thirty-year period he has produced an outstanding body of work including large-scale portrait paintings, woodcuts, etchings and linocuts. Using smooth, glossy planes of color to create representational images, Katz's work has immediate connections to reality and to the artificial.
People and scenes often considered elements of uneventful daily life are elevated to new status by transferring them to the canvas or the etching plate, but Katz makes no statements or judgments concerning his subjects. He creates iconographic images by generalizing the features of a sitter or a landscape, making them familiar to all viewers. With removal of high emotional content, the focus of the work becomes the formal properties of light, scale, and color. His use of simplified and shallow visual spaces place him among abstract artists, but it's his unique representational vision for which he is most recognized.
The work of Alex Katz is included in the collections of many museums
including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of
Modern Art, New York, New York; National Portrait Gallery, Washington,
D.C.; Saatchi Collection, London, England; and the Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, New York.
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| Sunrise 1996 Color woodcut 32.5 x 42.75 inches Edition of 30 ©1996 Alex Katz |
Spruce 1994 Color aquatint 47 x 34.5 inches Edition of 40 ©1994 Alex Katz |
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| Rowboat 1992 Color aquatint with spitbite 33.25 x 42.75 inches Edition of 50 ©1992 Alex Katz |
Margit Smiles 1994 Color aquatint 47.5 x 34.5 inches Edition of 50 ©1994 Alex Katz |
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| Wedding Dress 1993 Color aquatint 52 x 22.25 inches Edition of 75 ©1993 Alex Katz |
Vivian 1994 Color aquatint 25.5 x 25.5 inches Edition of 50 ©1994 Alex Katz |