Alex Katz 1994 Woodcut "Jessica"

Item Details

Alex Katz (American; born 1927)
Jessica, 1994
Woodcut on Japan paper
Signed “Alex Katz” to the lower left
Numbered 23/200

A woodcut on Japan paper titled Jessica by contemporary artist Alex Katz. This work is one of multiple portraits by the artist that exemplify his trademark style, which often features flatness in form, restrained lines, and emotionally detached subjects. The artist’s style takes inspiration from everyday visual culture, such as cinema and advertisements.

Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Russian parents and received his formal art training at The Cooper Union Art School in New York and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. He is known for intimate Postmodern portraits, still-lifes, and landscape, which he renders with a diverse range of mediums, including painting, collage, prints, set design, and costume design. Katz was a member of the second generation of the New York School painters along with painters Jane Freilicher and Larry Rivers, photographer Rudolph Burckhardt, poet John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and James Schuyler. His work is housed in The Art Institute of Chicago; The Brooklyn Museum; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Katz currently resides in SoHo, New York working and living in an artist cooperative while spending his summers in Maine.

Condition

- negligible wear throughout the edges of paper.

Dimensions

- measures the sheet; printed image measures 7" W x 7" H.

Item #

ITMG264859