Ada & Alex from A Tremor in the Morning
Alex Katz
American, born 1927
1986
A woodcut print that pares two faces down to bold, flat planes and crisp contours to capture an immediate, cinematic intimacy.
What strikes first is the high-contrast economy of black and white—faces cropped close to the picture plane and modelled with flat shapes and precise incisions so the image reads like a frozen film still.
By bringing his pared-down, graphic portrait style into woodcut for a book, Katz bridged modern painting and traditional printmaking and helped renew contemporary approaches to portraiture and illustration.
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
irreg. composition 11 15/16 x 11 15/16" (30.4 x 30.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Philip and Lynn Straus Foundation Fund
Accession
212.1986.B05
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