Black Suit (Ada)

Contemporary Art

1958

Alex Katz
American, born 1927

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Alex Katz
Title: Black Suit (Ada)
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1958
Medium: Oil on linen
Dimensions: 122 × 81.3 cm (48 × 32 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the artist
Reference Number: 2023.1308

Diana Tuite, with essays by Katy Siegel, Richard Shiff, and Eva Díaz, Brand -New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, exh. cat. (Waterville, ME: Colby College Museum of Art, 2015), 23, 186, cat. 87 (color ill.).
Alex Katz, ed. Vincent Katz, Invented Symbols: An Art Autobiography by Alex Katz (Waterville, ME: Colby College Museum of Art, 2012), 63 (ill.).
Vincent Katz, ed., with essay by Carter Ratcliff, Alex Katz (New York: Rizzoli, 2020), 106 (color ill.), 416 (ill.).
Katherine Brinson and Levi Prombaum, eds., with contributions by David Breslin, Jennifer Y. Chuong, David Max Horowitz, Arthur Jafa, Katie M. Kitamura, Wayne Koestenbaum, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Kevin Lotery, and Prudence Peiffer, Alex Katz: Gathering, exh. cat. (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2022), 66, fig. 6 (color ill.), 67.

Waterville, ME, Colby College Museum of Art, Brand -New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, July 11–Oct. 18, 2015, cat. 87; Cleveland Museum of Art, Apr. 30-Aug. 6, 2017, Purchase, NY, Neuberger Museum of Art, July 1–Oct. 14, 2018.

The artist; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 11, 2022.

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