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

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 ...

Alex Katz is an American figurative artist known for his large-scale landscapes, flowers, and portraits captured with a level of visual poetry unique for his time. His friendships with New York ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.