Ada with Hand
Artist
Alex Katz
(American, born 1927)
Date1972
Mediumgraphite on cream wove paper
Dimensionssheet: 50.6 × 75.5 cm (19 15/16 × 29 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineGift of Sidney Rose in memory of his parents, Mary D. and Philip Rose
Object number1983.63
Label TextKatz is a New Yorker, born, bred, and educated. However, in 1950 he attended the Skowhegan School in Maine, where he began painting from life. The artist bought an old farmhouse in Lincolnville, Maine, where he summers. Katz developed a reductive style with economical lines, simple form, and flat unmodulated colors. His chief subjects are family, friends, and familiar places; this drawing represents his wife, Ada.ProvenanceSidney Rose, Worcester, MAOn View
Not on view
John Steuart Curry
mid-20th century