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American artist (born 1927)

This article is about the artist. For the baseball player, see Alex Katz (baseball).

Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) 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.

Early life and career

Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jewish family^[1] in Brooklyn, New York, the son of an émigré who had lost a factory he owned in Ukraine, Odesa.^[2] In 1928 the family moved to St.

Albans, Queens, where Katz grew up.^[3]

From 1946 to 1949 Katz studied at the Cooper Union in New York, and from 1949 to 1950 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Skowhegan exposed him to painting fr