Alex Katz

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Early life and career

Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 24, 1927, as the son of an immigrant who had lost a factory he owned in Russia during the Soviet revolution. The family moved to St. Albans, Queens, in 1928, where Katz grew up.

Katz attended the Cooper Union in New York from 1946 to 1950, and from 1949 to 1950, he studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Skowhegan introduced him to painting from life, which would be pivotal in his growth as a painter and a staple of his daily routines today. Katz explains that Skowhegan's plein air painting gave him "a reason to commit my life to painting." Every year, Katz converts from a SoHo loft to a 19th-century clapboard farmhouse in Lincolnville, Maine, from early June to mid-September. He has been a summer resident of Lincolnville since 1954 and has maintained a strong association with local Colby College. He made a series of small collages of still lifes, Maine landscapes, and tiny figures from 1954 to 1960. Ada Del Moro, a biology student at New York University, was a visitor to a gallery opening in 1957. Vincent Katz, Katz's first (and only) son, was born in 1960. Isaac and Oliver Katz's sons were twins who have been featured in Katz's paintings.

During his first ten years as a painter, Katz confessed to destroying a thousand paintings to discover his style. Since the 1950s, he has been attempting to create art more freely in the sense that he wanted to paint "faster than [he] can think." His works seem straightforward, but they are more reductive, which is fitting to his personality, according to Katz. "One thing I don't want to do is things that are already done." I don't like stories, particularly because they are based on a particular subject matter."

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