Painting Energy - The Alex Katz Foundation Collection At the Portland Museum of Art

A comprehensive look at a collection of dynamic works built by visionary artist Alex KatzPainting Energy highlights a transformative series of gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation to the Portland Museum of Art, encompassing more than 150 multimedia works that articulate Alex Katz's specific vision with a focus on the 1980s as an energetic turning point in art history. Illuminated by rich illustrations, this publication highlights a collection that includes artists with strong ties to the state of Maine, such as Lois Dodd, Rackstraw Downes, and Fairfield Porter; leading artists in American modernism, such as Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Edward Hopper, Martha Diamond, and Stuart Davis; rising contemporary artists, such as Kamrooz Aram and Chase Hall; and other luminaries, such as Phillip Guston, Anselm Kiefer, and Sigmar Polke.This lavishly illustrated cata-logue will include an extended essay introduc-ing the artistic vision for the collection and short reflections from several artists, curators, and scholars, as well as a contribution by Katz himself providing further insight into his important collection.Distributed for the Portland Museum of ArtExhibition schedule:Portland Museum of Art, ME(May 23-September 14, 2025)

Product details

• Authors: Shalini Le Gall
• Assisted by: Shalini Le Gall (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9780300282207
• ISBN: 978-0-300-28220-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, Modernism, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections