Ted Berrigan, from Face of the Poet

Description

The career of Alex Katz has spanned more than sixty years and has included prints in nearly every media. His signature style—flattened, cropped portraits of his family and friends that explore scale, light, color, form, and composition—is clearly evident in Face of the Poet, a portfolio of fourteen color aquatints. Katz asked his poet friends to contribute their own work to the project and the result is a reflection of contemporary life in New York.

Ted Berrigan, from Face of the Poet

Alex Katz

1978

Accession Number

55602

Medium

Color aquatint on white wove paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 15.7 × 15.2 cm (6 3/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 36.8 × 48.3 cm (14 1/2 × 19 1/16 in.)

Classification

portfolio

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Henry M. Huxley Fund Income