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Print
Ada in Hat
Alex Katz, (Brooklyn, New York, 1927 - )
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
26 x 36 1/16 in. (66 x 91.6 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1990
1990
1990
1900-2000, 20th century, portraits, serigraphs, women
Print
This print is based on a small painting of Katz's wife, Ada in a Pillbox Hat, 1961. Katz's interest in making images that were of-the-moment is reflected in his use of "modern props". The pillbox hat was made famous and fashionable by First Lady Jackie Kennedy around the time of her husband's presidential inauguration in January 1961.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
lower leftverso
1995.62.2
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Memorial Art Gallery
10/14/1999
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10/23/2002
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10/28/2010
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Print
White Hat
Alex Katz, 1927 -
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
36 x 25 1/2 in. (91.4 x 64.8 cm)
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Printer's ink
1990
1990
1990
1900-2000, 20th century, portraits, serigraphs, women
Print
Based on a 1978 painting by Katz.
This is a portrait of the artist's wife, Ada. Like many artists before him, Alex Katz found his wife a convenient model. Having painted her face more than a hundred times, it has become an aesthetic thread woven throughout his body of work. Katz described Ada as "very malleableā¦a pretty girl cased in different roles." In fact, we see her throughout Katz's career as she gracefully ages from the time of their marriage in 1958 up to the current day.
Despite Katz's assertion that he is interested in divesting his images of meaning, it is hard for the viewer to avoid searching for emotional content in Katz's repeated portraits of himself and his wife. In traditional art making, portraits (and especially those of oneself and one's significant other) are charged with personal connotations. In addition, it is nearly impossible for us as humans to look at a face at such close range without attempting to ascribe to it some emotional content. Our desire to penetrate the surface of these paintings and Katz's insistence on refusing us that privilege creates a tension between our aesthetic and emotional senses. Katz thwarts our expectations and demands that we think differently about what a portrait is and can be.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
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1995.62.8
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Memorial Art Gallery
10/14/1999
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10/23/2002
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10/28/2010
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Print
Orange Hat
Alex Katz, (Brooklyn, New York, 1927 - )
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
17 15/16 x 36 1/8 in. (45.6 x 91.8 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1990
1990
1990
1900-2000, 20th century, portraits, serigraphs, women
Print
Based on a 1988 painting by Katz.
Alex Katz's artistic vision has revised what representational art looks like in the modern world. His portraits, carefully edited of extraneous detail, flattened, cropped, and blown-up to a grand scale, combine characteristics of realism and abstraction in a way that recalls the visual language and scale of advertising billboards and movies.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
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1995.62.1
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Memorial Art Gallery
10/14/1999
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10/23/2002
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10/28/2010
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Print
Ada with Sun Glasses
Alex Katz, (Brooklyn, New York, 1927 - )
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
36 x 24 3/16 in. (91.4 x 61.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
1990
1990
1990
1900-2000, 20th century, portraits, serigraphs, women
Print
This print is based on Katz's earlier portrait of the same name created in 1963. Katz views his prints as the final synthesis of his paintings.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
lower leftverso
1995.62.6
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Memorial Art Gallery
10/14/1999
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10/28/2010
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Print
Green Jacket
Alex Katz, (Brooklyn, New York, 1927 - )
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
35 15/16 x 24 in. (91.3 x 61 cm)
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Printer's ink
1990
1990
1990
1900-2000, 20th century, artists, men, self portraits, serigraphs
Print
Based on a 1989 painting by Katz.
Alex Katz says of his artistic influences, "I've got as much Old Masters as I do movies." In Green Jacket, Katz paints himself in the tradition of Baroque court portraiture. As the court painter for the Spanish throne in the 17th century, Velazquez cultivated a style of portraiture that displayed the power, pretension and grace valued at that time. Katz contemporizes his self-portrait by depicting himself in his green athletic jacket; clearly an American man of the late twentieth century.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
lower leftverso
1995.62.3
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Memorial Art Gallery
10/14/1999
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10/28/2010
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Print
Sweat Shirt II
Alex Katz, (Brooklyn, New York, 1927 - )
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
36 x 28 3/4 in. (91.4 x 73 cm)
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Printer's ink
1990
1990
1990
1900-2000, 20th century, artists, men, self portraits, serigraphs
Print
Based on a 1986 painting by Katz.
Alex Katz seeks "self-indulgence in a big art form, rather than self-indulgence in personal feelings." He calls his approach to art a "high style" one that is impersonal, grand, sophisticated, and representative of a specific moment in time, yet timeless. Katz delights in the appearance of faces and bodies divested of meaning or content. He strives to create images that are open to multiple interpretations rather than restricting viewers to a single response or understanding of his work.
Katz's style, or his use of the formal elements of light, color, and scale, is as much the subject of his portraits as are the sitters. His flat, broad areas of color and compressed spaces cause the viewer's eyes to skim over the surfaces of these portraits, never to penetrate in search of an interior life. Katz wants the viewer to experience and value the act of seeing without getting caught up in a search for meaning, as he has stated, "I can't think of anything more exciting than the surface of things. Just appearance."
[Gallery label text, 2005]
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1995.62.7
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Memorial Art Gallery
10/14/1999
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digital image
10/28/2010
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Print
Passing
Alex Katz, (Brooklyn, New York, 1927 - )
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
32 1/2 x 36 in. (82.6 x 91.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
1990
1990
1990
1900-2000, 20th century, artists, men, self portraits, serigraphs
Print
Based on a 1963 painting by Katz.
This print is based on a very large painting from 1962-63 of the same name. Katz's goal was to create a self-portrait that truly did subvert the traditional genre. "I wanted to see if I could paint one that was not narcissistic, that was not soulful or sentimental." His answer was to create a persona that was aloof, without evident emotional or psychological baggage. This resulted in the Stranger, the figure in this image. According to the artist, the title Passing has double meaning. It refers to the momentary experience of seeing a stranger--anonymous, blank--passing in the crowd, as well as Katz's attempt at passing himself off as that Stranger.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
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1995.62.5
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Memorial Art Gallery
10/14/1999
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10/28/2010
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Print
Double Portrait
Alex Katz, (Brooklyn, New York, 1927 - )
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
9 15/16 x 12 3/16 in. (25.2 x 31 cm)
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Black & white crayon lithograph
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1900-2000, 20th century, lithographs, portraits, women
Print
This lithograph is representative of Katz's continual use of his wife Ada as a subject. One of his first multiple portraits, this composition of two Adas was reworked by Katz several times in paint, print, and cutout.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
1998.114
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/14/2000
98.114SL1
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1/23/2002
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Grey Ribbon
Alex Katz, (Brooklyn, New York, 1927 - )
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
27 1/2 x 36 in. (69.9 x 91.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
1990
1990
1990
1900-2000, 20th century, portraits, serigraphs, women
Print
Based on a 1987 painting by Katz.
Alex Katz's ongoing effort to devalue the subject in his art is most visible in his portraits in which the subject is multiplied, with the result that the image contains more in design than it does in content. A sitter's individuality is diminished one further step, a person's unique character is subsumed to the pattern of the whole.
[Gallery label text, 2005]
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1995.62.4
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Memorial Art Gallery
10/14/1999
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10/28/2010
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Print
George Washington
Alex Katz, 1927 -
Katz, Alex
United States
1927
Male
20 x 40 in. (50.8 x 101.6 cm)
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Printer's ink
1975
1975
1975
1900-2000, 20th century, lithographs, men, politics in art, portraits
Print
1975.120.7
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
75.120.7DI1
digital image
7/22/2004
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