Joan

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Artist Alex Katz (American, b. 1927)

Title Joan

Date 1967

Medium Graphite on paper

Dimensions Sheet: 9 × 11 3/4 in. (22.9 × 29.8 cm)
Framed: 20 1/8 × 25 1/8 × 1 in. (51.1 × 63.8 × 2.5 cm)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds from Burton and Suzanne Borgelt in honor of Linda Watson, and the estate of Herman B Wells via the Joseph Granville and Anna Bernice Wells Memorial Fund, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2016.62

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Alex Katz is recognized as a leading member of the new American realists, who re-embraced ﬁgurative art in the 1960s when Abstract Expressionism was the predominant style. Although representational, Katz’s work captures an abstracted stylization that recalls modern artists like Paul Cezanne and Juan Gris, as well as the cartoon-like simplicity of some of his Pop art contemporaries. His drawings often served as preparatory designs for his large, colorful paintings and graphic work. This image is a study for a 1971 print of the same title (seen in reverse).

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