Untitled
Alex Katz
1950s
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pen and blue ink on brown-paper sketchbook cover
Dimensions
overall: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Parnassus Foundation
Accession Number
1998.31.13.aa
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...