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The various Alex Katz.
The painter Alex Katz is a curious figure in the annals of postwar American art. Throughout his fifty-year career, he's been perpetually situated to the side of the art world's mainstream, yet never so far to the side that he isn't in the thick of things. A realist who came of age during an era predominated by abstraction--Abstract Expressionism to be exact--Katz has been linked with a number of artistic tendencies, such as Color Field painting, Pop Art, and realism--both "new" and the traditional. He's found a congenial home in all of them. Yet the closest one can come to placing Katz is to note that he's a key figure in the generation of painters--it includes Fairfield ...
- Alex Katz: Flowers and Landscapes on View October 8-November 8, 2003.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 19, 2003 700+ words
...an exhibition of new paintings by Alex Katz will be on view from October 8 through...accompanying exhibition catalogue essay. Alex Katz first painted outdoors in Maine in...variety of urban and country settings. Alex Katz's work has been the subject of...
- ALEX KATZ' VISION, BY ANN BEATTIE
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Pamela Reynolds, Globe Staff April 20, 1987 700+ words
...of writer Ann Beattie and artist Alex Katz first converged. Yarowsky, an editor...the coolly composed subjects in an Alex Katz print and think of an Ann Beattie...the slick, stylized paintings of Alex Katz. Beattie said yes. And in that...
- Two Wonderful Shows: Painter Alex Katz Having Big Summer.(Culture)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) July 18, 2005 700+ words
...Hilton Kramer For the American painter Alex Katz (born 1927), this has been a remarkable...subjects, called--what else?--Alex Katz in Maine. This second show also...Suzette Lane McAvoy, the curator of Alex Katz in Maine, writes in the show's...
- Maine man.(painter Alex Katz)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country McGee, Celia July 1, 1997 700+ words
...celebrated landscape paintings of artist Alex Katz chronicle his longtime love affair...set deep in the down East woods. Alex Katz stands, on a brilliant summer day...do you call it . . . beautiful." Alex Katz and Maine have been friends for a...
- Alex Katz. (Whitney Museum, New York)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Danto, Arthur Coleman May 10, 1986 700+ words
Alex Katz The philosopher Alvin Goldman once invented...of which is occupied (until June 15) by Alex Katz's cutouts: free-standing flat effigies...taken for something else. The cutout is Alex Katz's most distinctive contribution to contemporary...
- A scaled-up world.(painter Alex Katz)(Cover Story)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Cohen, David May 1, 1998 700+ words
In the '90s, Alex Katz has clearly taken to painting big. True...compositions in such unlikely harmony that a big Alex Katz still pulls the viewer up short, however...traveling exhibition it originated, "Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes...
- Alex Katz at PaceWildenstein, the Whitney Museum and Peter Blum. (New...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Leffingwell, Edward March 1, 2002 700+ words
...discredit to the painter to learn that Alex Katz is said to have completed the lonely...exhibition at PaceWildenstein, "Alex Katz: Large Paintings," showcased new...landscapes from 1950 to the present, "Alex Katz: Small Paintings," appeared concurrently...
- Alex Katz: Peter Blum/Pacewildenstein/Whitney Museum of American Art, New...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Plagens, Peter December 1, 2001 700+ words
Does a painting by Alex Katz have an inner life? Silly question...informal-but-knowing canvases. Katz, at least in the New York art world...then, that this fall saw a veritable Alex Katz Fest in New York, with a show of huge...
Source: HighBeam Research, The various Alex Katz.