Black Jacket relates to a painting on canvas by Alex Katz, which was painted in the same year (1972) and bears the same title, but which, like most of Katz's paintings is quite large. This work depicts the same person -- the artist's wife Ada -- in diffferent poses and observed at various degrees of closeness to the viewer.
Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. In 1972 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting.
Source: Bulletin, July-August, 1978.
Black Jacket relates to a painting on canvas by Alex Katz which was painted in th same year and bears the same title. It too depicts the same person--the artist's wife Ada--in different poses and observed at various degrees of closeness to the viewer.
Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.
Source: Bulletin, July-August, 1978.
Published ReferencesIrving Sandler, ALEX KATZ, Harry N. Abrams Inc., N.Y., 1979, no.156, titled: "FIVE ADAS," color ill.
David A. Lauer and Stephen Pentak, DESIGN BASICS, 4th ed., Harcourt Brace College Publishers, The Ohio State University, 1995, b/w ill. p.16
Lawrence Alloway, "The Constant Muse," ART IN AMERICA, Jan. 1981, color ill. p.115
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.90 & 91, b/w ill. p.91
DMAC Bulletin, July/Aug. 1978, cover ill.
Robert Storr,"Alex Katz Paints Ada", The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press, 2006
