Six Women
Artist
Alex Katz
American, born 1927
Date1975
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions114 x 282 in. (289.6 x 716.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from various donors, by exchange
Object number91.15
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesLawrence Alloway, "Alex Katz's Development." Artforum 14 (January 1976), 45-51, discussed 51, illus. (color) 49. Reprinted in Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting from the Saatchi Gallery, David Sylvester, ed. (London: The Saatchi Gallery, 1997), discussed 175, illus. (b-w) 175.
Richard Lorber, "Alex Katz: Marlborough," Arts 50 (May 1976), 21.
Irving Sandler, Alex Katz (New York: Abrams, 1979), illus. (color) pl. 202.
Gail Levin, "Alex Katz: Of Candor and Artifice," in Alex Katz: Process and Development (exhibition catalogue) (Hamilton, NY: Picker Art Gallery, 1984), discussed 13, illus. (b-w) fig. 5.
John W. Coffey, "Katz and Six Women," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1992), 2-4, illus. (b-w) 2-3, (color, detail & full) cover.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 282.
Sam Hunter, Alex Katz (New York: Rizzoli, 1992), illus. (color) fig. 47.
Lawrence Naumoff, "The Sixth Woman," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 106-109, illus. (color) 106.
Irving Sandler, Alex Katz (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998), illus. (b-w) 112-13.
John W. Coffey, entry for Six Women, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 240, illus. (color).
Chuck Twardy, "Gifts to ourselves," Raleigh: The News and Observer, "What's Up" insert (December 12, 1997), 15.
John W. Coffey, entry for Six Women, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 512, illus. (color) 513.
Alex Katz, Invented Symbols (Milan: Charta, 2012), mentioned 97-98.
Xhenet Aliu, "Six Women, after Alex Katz" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art), 2021, illus (color) 26-27, 29 (detail).Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Marlborough Gallery, "Alex Katz," February 28-March 20, 1976, no. 10, illus. (color).
Albany, NY, New York State Museum, "New York: The State of the Art," October 8-November 27, 1977, no. 527, illus. (detail, color) p. 9.
Waltham, MA, Rose Art Gallery, Brandeis University, "Alex Katz in the Seventies," May 27-July 9, 1978, no. 19, illus. (color).
Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, (loan to the collection), September 25, 1987-September 25, 1989.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998.(Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)
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