Family Album
Artist
Alex Katz
American, born 1927
Date1958
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions73 5/8 x 72 1/4 in. (187 x 183.5 cm)
Frame: 74 1/2 x 73 x 2 in. (189.2 x 185.4 x 5.1 cm)
Frame: 74 1/2 x 73 x 2 in. (189.2 x 185.4 x 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Vincent Katz
Object number91.18
On View
Not on viewPublished References"D.J." (Tanager Gallery review), Art News 58 (September 1958), illus.(b-w) 11 (as Edwin Denby and the Burckhardts).
Suzanne Kiplinger, "Art: 10th Street," The Village Voice (October 28, 1959).
Irving Sandler, Alex Katz (New York: Abrams, 1979), illus. (b-w) fig. 57 (as Family Album, collection of Vincent Katz).
Hilton Kramer, "Two Illuminating Styles of the Late 1950's," The New York Times (February 15, 1981), D29, illus. (b-w).
John W. Coffey, "Family Album: A Recent Acquisition," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1992), 4, illus. (b-w).
Melissa Clement, "Portraits tell stories of people's inner, outer lives," Fayetteville, NC: Fayetteville Observer Times (July 17, 1998), 22.
Jolyn Key, "Taking It a Step Beyond: Fayetteville Museum of Arts Beyond Likeness Exibit [sic]," Up & Coming Magazine (July 22-August 4, 1998), 17.
Diana Tuite, “A Representational World in Our Time,” in Brand-New and Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s (exhibition catalogue) (Waterville, ME: Colby College Museum of Art, 2015), 20, illus. (color) cat. no. 68.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Tanager Gallery, "Members Group Show," October 16-November 5, 1959, illus. (b-w, as Chelsea Group) unnumbered page.
New York, NY, Robert Miller Gallery, "Alex Katz: 1957-59," February 5-March 7, 1981.
Hickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, "Beyond Likeness: Contemporary Considerations of the Portrait," November 1-December 31, 1997; Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, April 30-June 28, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, July 11-August 30, 1998; Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, September 17, 1998-January 2, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, January 14-February 28, 1999, brochure.
Waterville, ME, Colby College Museum of Art, “Brand-New and Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s,” July 11–October 15, 2015, cat. no. 68, illus. (color).
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