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Alex Katz
New York, July 24, 1927 - American painter and graphic artist, best known for his unique REALIST style. Trained at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, and then at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine from 1949-50. In 1972 he was awarded the Guggenheim Grant in Painting. Alex Katz is one of the most important American artists to have emerged since 1950. Throughout his career, which now spans more than thirty years, Katz has produced a remarkable and impressive body of work that constitutes a unique aspect of modern realism. In the words of Richard Marshall, Associate Curator of Exhibitions of the Whitney Museum of American Art: \
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