Nationality
American
Artist Dates
b. 1927
Preview
Date of Work
1978
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art& Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection
Status
Stored: FF_012_C
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. Katz studied at the Cooper Union Art School from 1946 to 1949 where he was awarded a scholarship to study at Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. He is best known for his large-scale, pop art influenced paintings that involve portraiture and landscape. Alex Katz has work publicly displayed in Times Square, Foley Square, Harlem Station, the New York Taxi Project and Creative Time. Permanent collections that have Alex Katz's work include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and several others around the world.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcards Series II
Black and white photograph of Alex Katz himself smiling from the shoulders up. Bottom right is signed/printed with the postcard image "Best Wishes Alex Katz" in red.
UND Art Collections owns 1 copy of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Alex Katz, Alex Katz
Photograph
© Artists' Postcards 1978, N.Y.C.
Text in top center of postcard:
Artists' Postcards Logo
Text in bottom left of postcard:
Exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Fall 1978
Four address lines are located on the bottom right side of the postcard.
Condition
Very good