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The Maine event.(beauty of Maine, painting exhibition)(Brief Article)
Byline: Leslie Camhi
Picturesque, heroic Maine-its lobster fishermen, pine forests, and rocky coastline-has furnished material for artists from Winslow Homer to Marsden Hartley. But when Alex Katz purchased a yellow clapboard farmhouse a few miles inland from Lincolnville some 50 years ago, he was looking for a touch of the ordinary.
"I'm trying to see something that's right in front of you all the time," the artist, lanky and elegant at 77, tells me in his New York studio. "This place, for example," he continues, gesturing toward a monumental painting of two plain shacks viewed from across a marina at night, their windows' reflected light streaking the dark water with gold. "I'd gone by there for 30 years and never really seen it," he confides, "until one night."
That canvas, ...
- USA. New York City. 1995. Painter Alex KATZ in his studio. (NYC28786)
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Inge Morath Estate January 1, 1995 700+ words
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- USA. New York City. 1995. Painter Alex KATZ in his studio. (PAR74854)
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Inge Morath January 1, 1995 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Art in America Taplin, Robert September 1, 1993 700+ words
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