Alex Katz Limited Edition Lithograph "Late July"
Item Details
Alex Katz (American; b. 1927)
Late July, circa 1971
Lithograph on paper
Signed to lower left
Numbered 4/120 to lower left
Published by Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Printed by Bank Street Atelier, New York
Bank Street Atelier blind stamp to lower right corner
A limited edition lithograph titled Late July by contemporary American artist Alex Katz (b. 1927), created circa 1971. Published by Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and printed by Bank Street Atelier, this lithograph is signed in graphite and numbered 4 out of an edition of 120 to the lower left. A blind stamp from Bank Street Atelier is marked to the lower right corner. The print is mounted on a white surface, presented ting, under glass with white matting, and housed in a silver-tone metal frame.
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 reside in SoHo, New York working and living in an artist cooperative while spending his summers in Maine.
Condition
- minor wear to edges of paper; minor wear scattered throughout frame.
Dimensions
- measurement of frame; sheet size measures approximately 28.5" W x 22.25" H.
Item #
18COL400-001
