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Alex Katz

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Alex Katz
Alex Katz
Born (1927-07-24) July 24, 1927 (age 97)
New York City, U.S.
EducationThe Cooper Union, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Known forSculpture, Painting, Printmaking
MovementEast Coast Figurative painting, New Realism, Pop Art

Alex Katz (July 24, 1927) is an American artist.

Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927 and raised in Queens, New York. He went to school at Woodrow Wilson Vocational High School. That school let him make art much of the time.[1]

In 1946 he studied art at Cooper Union in New York City. After that, in the summers of 1949 and 1950, he went to the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine. In the mid-1950s he bought a house in Lincolnville, Maine.[1]

He had his first art show in 1954. He was friends with many poets in New York, such as Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Edwin Denby. Many creative people are in his paintings, such as choreographer Paul Taylor, Denby, O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, the filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt, and the dancer Bill T. Jones.[1]

From 2022 to 2023, the Guggenheim Museum showed a large range of Katz's art from his whole career. It was called "Alex Katz: Gathering."[2]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fortini, Amanda; Soth, Alec (2022-08-18). "Alex Katz Is Still Perfecting His Craft". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
  2. "Alex Katz: Gathering". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-24.