Alex Katz paints Ada 27 October 2006 - 18 March 2007 at The Jewish Museum, New York www.thejewishmuseum.org

fig.: Alex Katz, Good Afternoon 2, 1974, oil on linen.  Private collection.  Art © Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and after graduating from high school and serving in the Navy, studied from 1946 to 1949 at The Cooper Union in New York. In 1957 he met Ada Del Moro. They married in 1958. In 1994, the school endowed the Alex Katz Visiting Chair in Painting, and in 2000 honored the artist with its Artist of the City award. From 1949 to 1950, Katz continued his studies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. He had his first solo exhibition in 1954 at the Roko Gallery in New York, and since then his work has received nearly 200 solo exhibition around the globe, including a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1986. His works are collected in numerous public collections worldwide.

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