Alex Katz

Ada on Blue
1959

A painting of a woman with dark hair and red lips, wearing a blue shirt against a dark blue background. The style is simple with visible brush strokes, and there's a signature in the top right corner with the year '55.

A painting of a woman with dark hair and red lips, wearing a blue shirt against a dark blue background. The style is simple with visible brush strokes, and there's a signature in the top right corner with the year '55.

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Date
1959

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on composition board

Dimensions
Overall: 16 1/16 × 15 3/4in. (40.8 × 40 cm)

Accession number
97.44.2

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/11316

Exhibitions

Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960

Apr 28, 2017–June 2, 2019

Alex Katz
81 works in the collection

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