Pop artist Alex Katz, most known for his portraits of his wife Ada, has long been inspired by landscapes, especially those near his summer home in Maine.Katz first experimented with painting outdoors as a student at the prestigious Skowhegan School in Maine in the 1940s, reaching his most productive period of landscape painting in the '80s and '90s. Alex Katz is a contemporary American artist renowned for his large-format paintings of landscapes, flowers, and portraits of his wife Ada. View Alex Katz's 6,545 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available prints and multiples, paintings, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist.
Alex Katz Landscape with Yellow House, oil on board
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Since 1951, Katz's work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally.. In 1998, a survey of Katz' landscape paintings was shown at the P.S. Alex Katz: This is Now at the High Museum of Atlanta, a major retrospective of the development of the landscape genre in Alex Katz's career, features over 60 works including a number of monumentally scaled canvases. Drawing from the past twenty-five years, the exhibition is also accompanied by a full catalogue, with essays by curator Michael. Alex Katz, (born July 24, 1927, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American figurative painter known for his large-scale simplified images of family and friends. Katz created iconic paintings documenting the American scene and later the American landscape through understated but monumental glimpses of the vernacular world. Alex Katz was born in 1927, a remarkable figure of American Pop Art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org - best visual art database.. From 1954 to 1960, he made a number of small collages of still lifes, Maine landscapes, and small figures. He met Ada Del Moro, who had studied biology at New York University, at a gallery opening.
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Installation view of "Alex Katz: Gathering" at the Guggenheim Museum, showing Katz's oil-on-aluminum cutout, "Jack and D.D. Ryan" in the foreground.. Katz's recent landscapes. Alex Katz is a New York based painter and printmaker, specializing in boldly simplified portraits and landscapes. Though influenced by American Scene artists as well as diverse elements of European and American modernism, he has avoided affiliation with any group or movement. To a great degree, Katz's distinction lies in the fascinating. ALEX KATZ WAS born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, in 1927 and raised in St. Albans, Queens, where his family moved in 1928, just before the start of the Depression.. (1992), a landscape of Maine. Famous for his large-scale canvases of pared-back figures, landscapes and flowers, Alex Katz is one of the most celebrated and widely-exhibited artists working today.Rising to prominence between the reigns of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, Katz started to exhibit his work in New York in 1951, beginning a seven-decade-long practice that would come to span paintings, drawings, prints and.
"Alex Katz (American, b 1927.), quatre arbres, 2005. Huile sur toile
With flat planes of rich, lovely color, Alex Katz's landscapes and portraits evoke the smooth aesthetics of advertising billboards and film. The prolific artist is especially well known for his paintings of Ada, his wife and muse.. Alex Katz 'Julia & Alexandra' 1983, 1983. Hirth Fine Art. US$20,000. Alex Katz. Jessica, 2002. Craven. [CHICAGO - August 8, 2023] - Alex Katz: Autumn is the artist's tenth solo exhibition at GRAY and the first exhibition of large-scale landscapes since 2018. The exhibition follows his lauded career retrospective, Gathering, which opened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in the fall of 2022. As Guggenheim curator Katherine Brinson described: "[One] might be surprised by the unbound.
The people are small in scale—strangers observed from a distance. They are locked into the landscape, quite unlike the classic Katz painting in which the artist's friends, painted simply and heroically, dominate the setting. In both paintings, Katz has modeled the figures solidly and volumetrically, a departure from his previous work. Exhibition. Apr 26-Jun 21, 1998. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951—1995, the first retrospective of landscape works by the American artist Alex Katz. Curated and organized by P.S.1's Executive Director, Alanna Heiss, this exhibition premiered in June 1996 at the Baltimore Museum of Art and has traveled to The Norton.
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to announce the exhibition New Landscapes by Alex Katz.The American artist, currently exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London with his recent Quick Light series, had occupied the four halls of the Pantin gallery in 2014 with the exhibition 45 Years of Portraits, 1969-2014.In the Marais gallery Alex Katz will unveil his most recent series. Alex Katz, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, 1986, pl. 54. 1997 Alex Katz: Under the Stars: Landscapes 1951-1995, Institute for Contemporary Art / P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, 1997-1998, unnumbered catalogue, repro. 2002
