[Five women from the shoulders up are depicted in a line across the frame. The leftmost woman with brown hair faces the left and wears a grey sweater with a red shirt. The second woman faces the viewer, has shaved black hair and wears a grey sweater. The third woman has blonde hair and red lipstick while looking to the left. The fourth woman faces the left and has short black hair and wears a pink sweater. The last woman with brown hair wears a red top and faces the viewer.]
Alex Katz
Five Women , 1977
Artwork Type: Prints
Medium: Color screenprint
Dimensions: 18 x 46 ½ in. (45.72 x 118.11 cm)
Accession #: 19810781
Edition: 20 / 100
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation, gift of Martin Shafiroff
Related Exhibitions:
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections
Copyright: © Alex Katz
Object Label:
Show Object Label(s)Alex Katz (b. 1927, American) is renowned
for his large-scale portraits, landscapes, and
flowers. His restrained compositions bear the
trademark of flattened forms, simplification of
detail, and direct paint application. Debuting
a style that opposed abstraction of the 1950s,
he insisted on representational subject matter
and worked alongside artists such as Lois
Dodd, Larry Rivers, as well as poets and writers
Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, and Edwin
Denby. For nearly seven decades, Katz moved
across genres and devoted a particular focus to
portraiture. Five Women (1977) is characteristic
of the artist’s depiction of groups and gatherings
that he began in the mid-1960s, and, as in
many of his works, includes a portrait of his
wife Ada, who remains his enduring subject
and inspiration.
–Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
–American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections
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