Both events are free. "Alex Katz: Small Paintings" is on view at the Austin Museum of Art, 823 Congress, through May 5. For information call 495-9029 or visit www.amoa.org.

Katz’s first exhibition was held at the Roko Gallery in New York in 1954, and it was during this time that he was socializing with other important artists of the day, like Larry Rivers and ...

Among the flower paintings are “Wild Spring Flowers2,” “Peony” and “Rhododendron on Orange.” “I thought the world could use some cheering up,” Katz said.

Oil on canvas. 96 x 144 inches. ©Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Given his long summer residency, it’s perhaps no surprise that a Maine museum is the leading repository of his art.

Alex Katz is considered one of the most prominent and prolific American artists of the past 50 years. Best known for his bright, billboard-sized portraits, Katz's work has been the subject of two ...

EVERY SUMMER since 1954, the Brooklyn-born painter Alex Katz has migrated north to the town of Lincolnville, Maine, where he paints large-scale, pared-down landscapes inspired by the countryside.

For much of his career, Katz has been considered less consequential than peers such as Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly. (Katz’s auction record of £3.4mn is less than a tenth of their top prices.) ...

PACEWILDENSTEIN The large-scale landscape and flower paintings in Alex Katz `s recent exhibition are luminous paeans both to painterly gesture and to elementary color and form. A few of the landscapes ...