Swimmer [working proof 4]
1990
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color woodblock on wove Echizen-Kozo paper [working proof 4]
Dimensions
image: 40.5 × 50.8 cm (15 15/16 × 20 in.) sheet (irreg.): 52.5 × 62.5 cm (20 11/16 × 24 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.386
About the Artist
Alex Katz
Alex Katz, born on July 24, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian émigré parents, grew up in St. Albans, Queens, in a family immersed in the arts—his mother had been an actress in Yiddish theater. Katz honed his skills at Woodrow Wilson High School's arts program before enrolling at The Cooper Union in 1946, where he studied painting under Morris Kantor, absorbing modern art theories and techniq...