Duplicate of plate (page 22) from Gloria
Alex Katz
American, born 1927
2005
A small black-and-white etching by Alex Katz that reduces a floral scene to bold white contour lines on a square black field, made as a supplementary print for the illustrated book Gloria.
Set low on a wide white sheet, a dense black square confronts you with spare, looping white outlines of petals and leaves, the high contrast giving the flowers a stencil-like, almost cinematic clarity.
By translating his signature flatness and economy of line into etching and the artists’‑book format, Katz extends his painting concerns into serial, reproducible images that bridge painting, printmaking, and graphic design.
Medium
One from the supplementary suite of twenty-five etchings for an illustrated book with twenty-five etchings
Dimensions
plate: 4 × 4" (10.2 × 10.2 cm); sheet: 12 1/16 × 9 1/16" (30.6 × 23 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Eugene Mercy, Jr. Fund and Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro Fund
Accession
266.2006.B10
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