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"tombstone": "Impala, 1968. Alex Katz (American, b. 1927). Oil on canvas; framed: 187 x 278 x 4 cm (73 5/8 x 109 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 182.9 x 276.9 cm (72 x 109 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund and Gift of the Eppler Family Foundation and Agnes Gund, 1983.68. \u00a9 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
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"id": 309669,
"title": "The Year in Review for 1983",
"description": "The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).",
"opening_date": "1984-02-22T05:00:00"
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"id": 227413,
"title": "Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s",
"description": "Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 30-August 6, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2015-07-11T04:00:00"
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"description": "Fischbach Gallery, New York (September 26-October 22, 1970).",
"opening_date": "1970-09-26T00:00:00"
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"description": "Alex Katz Retrospective. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City (January 7-February 7, 1971); University of California, San Diego (February 22-April 14, 1971); Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul (July 16-October 3, 1971); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (November 10-December 31, 1971).",
"opening_date": "1971-01-07T00:00:00"
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"description": "Alex Katz. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (March 6-June 15, 1986).",
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"did_you_know": "Katz made five quick oil sketches prior to composing Impala; because of his preparations the final image was completed in just one session.",
"description": "Impala is one of at least 80 portraits Alex Katz painted of his wife, Ada. Here, he presents her as a passenger in the vivid red interior of a 1960s Chevy Impala on a drive through the American Southwest. A mountainous view of Utah is visible through the car window. Combining realism and abstraction, Katz borrows the large scale and bold forms of Abstract Expressionism to invigorate his straightforward approach to figurative painting.",
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"citation": "Gilbert, Rita, and William McCarter. Living with Art. New York: Knopf, 1988.",
"page_number": "Reproduced p. 21",
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"citation": "Katz, Alex, David Sylvester, and Merlin James. Alex Katz: Twenty Five Years of Painting from the Saatchi Collection. London: Saatchi Gallery, 1997.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned p. 173",
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{
"citation": "Marshall, Richard, Alex Katz, and Robert Rosenblum. Alex Katz. New York: Rizzoli, 1986.",
"page_number": "Reproduced p. 91, fig 60",
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"citation": "Sandler, Irving. Alex Katz. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1979.",
"page_number": "Reproduced p. 40, fig. 28; mentioned p. 38",
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"citation": "Katz, Alex, Irving Sandler, and Bill Berkson. Alex Katz. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. .",
"page_number": "Reproduced p. 91",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Year in Review for 1983,\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38-79.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned p. 56, cat. 95",
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"citation": "Hinson, Tom H. \"Alex Katz's Impala,\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no.8 (1986): 314-26.",
"page_number": "Reproduced on cover, p. 314; mentioned p. 314",
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},
{
"citation": "Sandler, Irving. Alex Katz: A Retrospective. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.",
"page_number": "Reproduced p. 56",
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{
"citation": "Katz, Alex. Alex Katz: The Sixties. Milano: Charta, 2006.",
"page_number": "Reproduced pp. 72-72",
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"citation": "Storr, Robert, Lawrence Alloway, and James Schuyler. Alex Katz Paints Ada, 1957-2005. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2006.",
"page_number": "Reproduced . 96; mentioned p. 95, 101",
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},
{
"citation": "Cole, Mark. \u201cBrand-New & Terrific: The innovative early works of Alex Katz remain fresh and vital.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 57, no. 3 (May/June 2017): Cover, 5-7.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 7",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2017-03/page/n1/mode/2up"
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