
Tony Towle, from Face of the Poet
<p>The career of Alex Katz has spanned more than sixty years and has included prints in nearly every media. His signature style—flattened, cropped portraits of his family and friends that explore scale, light, color, form, and composition—is clearly evident in <em>Face of the Poet</em>, a portfolio of fourteen color aquatints. Katz asked his poet friends to contribute their own work to the project and the result is a reflection of contemporary life in New York.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1978
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 15.1 × 15.7 cm (6 × 6 3/16 in.); Sheet: 36.8 × 48.3 cm (14 1/2 × 19 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Alex Katz
Artist

Painting
Alex Katz is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Since 1951, Katz's work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. He is well known for his large paintings, whose bold simplicity and heightened colors are considered as precursors to Pop Art.
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Duplicate of plate (page 18) from Gloria
2005 · One from the supplementary suite of twenty-five etchings for an illustrated book with twenty-five etchings
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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