About this artwork
In the mid-1950s Alex Katz began producing large-scale paintings that prefigured Pop Art. His influences include sources as varied as early American painting, Japanese woodblock prints, fashion photography, and Abstract Expressionism. Yellow House 2 depicts a window on Katz’s summer home in Maine, a recurring subject in his paintings. Neither romanticized nor sentimental, the stylized rendering becomes a version of a self-portrait, infused with memory of a place. The subject is cropped and foregrounded, which resembles his approach to portraits of family and friends. Centering the composition on a darkened window, Katz does not reveal the size of the house or its surroundings, offering instead an intimate perspective that is at once harmonious and disquieting.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Alex Katz
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Title
- Yellow House 2
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 2001
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Medium
- Oil on linen
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Dimensions
- 304.8 × 304.8 cm (120 × 120 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
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Reference Number
- 2017.150
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