Good Afternoon
Artist
Alex Katz
(American, born 1927)
Date1974
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 72 × 96 × 2 1/2 inches (182.88 × 243.84 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the William T. Kemper Foundation–Commerce Bank, Trustee
Object number2003.9
On View
On viewGallery Location
- L3
Collections
DescriptionA woman in a canoe is centered in the middle of the canvas facing the viewer. She wears a white hat and a striped shirt. The water and canoe remain perfectly still even though the woman holds a paddle in the water.Gallery LabelAlex Katz is an American figurative artist who is known for his crisp large-scale paintings of simplified portraits and landscapes. They are defined by flatness of surface, swaths of bright color, and the presentation of ordinary, lived moments. Katz’s style presents a distinctive type of Realism in American art, combining aspects of both abstraction and representation. Katz often uses friends and family as models, and Good Afternoon portrays his wife and muse, Ada, in a canoe. Ada has been the subject of more than 250 of his paintings.
Copyright© Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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