Alex Katz Lithograph Exhibition Poster, 1971

Item Details

Alex Katz (American, born 1927)
Exhibition poster for Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1971
Color lithograph on paper
Unsigned

Provenance
From the Collection of D. D. Ryan (d. 2007)

D.D. (Dorinda Dixon) Ryan, the glass of fashion, had an unerring talent for combining disparate objects, people and ideas. Raised as a salty New Englander in Bristol, Rhode Island, D.D. slipped effortlessly into the social swirl of 1950s New York where she married the eligible John Barry Ryan III. Thereafter, she kept her finger on the pulse of city life, its fashion, art and high society.

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

- edge toning and minor abrasions.

Dimensions

• Please note, this item may be rolled for storage and shipping.

Item #

ITMG425221