Maine/New York surveys three decades of paintings by Alex Katz (born 1927). A quintessential New York artist, Katz is also a part-time resident of rural Maine, and the subject matter of his paintings accordingly shifts from landscape to cityscape, from rural vignette to Manhattan interior. In this volume, published for an exhibition at Colby College Museum of Art--where the largest public collection of Katz's resides--the pleasant haze of city afternoons is juxtaposed with the flickering greens of a rural path; the buzz of a fashionable social occasion with the dusk as it descends on a pond in the Maine woods. Along the way, we encounter the family members and friends who populate Katz's paintings, cast in his distinctive treatments of light and atmosphere.
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Sharon Corwin was appointed as the Carolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator at the Colby College Museum of Art and Professor of Art at Colby College in 2006 after serving for 3 years as the Lunder Curator of American Art at the Colby Museum. At Colby, she is currently overseeing a 26,000 SF addition to the museum designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners. Prior to coming to the Colby Museum, Corwin held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught courses in the History of Art Department and curated special exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum.
Corwin holds a B.A. from New College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley. She has published numerous books and essays including, Alex Katz: Maine/New York (Charta, 2012), American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White (University of California Press, 2010) and "Picturing Efficiency: Precisionism, Scientific Management, and the Effacement of Labor" (Representations, 2004). She also serves on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the Public Art Committee for the Maine Arts Commission.
Great painter, great writer. This makes for a first rate monograph. Fine reproductions. Interesting way of considering Alex Katz: within a tradition that includes Hartley, Homer, etc.
