Alex Katz

Place
1977

A painting of five individuals with a retro aesthetic, featuring two women and three men. The men are depicted with varying facial hair and hairstyles typical of the 1970s or 1980s, while the women have shoulder-length hair. They are dressed in clothing that reflects styles from the same era, with one man in a plaid shirt and another in a blue shirt, while the women wear blouses, one in blue and the other patterned with flowers. The background is a simple, unadorned gradient.

A painting of five individuals with a retro aesthetic, featuring two women and three men. The men are depicted with varying facial hair and hairstyles typical of the 1970s or 1980s, while the women have shoulder-length hair. They are dressed in clothing that reflects styles from the same era, with one man in a plaid shirt and another in a blue shirt, while the women wear blouses, one in blue and the other patterned with flowers. The background is a simple, unadorned gradient.

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Date
1977

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on linen

Dimensions
Overall: 108 1/8 × 144 1/8in. (274.6 × 366.1 cm)

Accession number
78.23

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Frances and Sydney Lewis

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

API
artworks/444

Exhibitions

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Apr 2, 2016–Apr 2, 2017

Alex Katz
81 works in the collection

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