Art © Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Currently not on view
Boy with Branch, I,
1975
Alex Katz, American, born 1927
Printed by Prawat Laucharoen, born 1941, Rajaburi, Thailand; active New York, NY
Co-published by Bo Alveryd and
Marlborough Graphics
Printed by Prawat Laucharoen, born 1941, Rajaburi, Thailand; active New York, NY
Co-published by Bo Alveryd and
Marlborough Graphics
x1981-108
Boy with Branch demonstrates the influence of film and photography on Katz’s work. Here, Katz used the technique of the tight shot, closely cropping the head of a young, androgynous boy who gazes dreamily beyond the frame. The proximity of the figure to the picture plane—and, by extension, the viewer—heightens the sense of emotional intimacy, a compositional technique also employed in nearby photographs by Harry Callahan and Peter Hujar.
Information
Title
Boy with Branch, I
Dates
1975
Maker
Medium
Seven-color aquatint on white Arches Cover paper
Dimensions
61 x 102 cm. (24 x 40 3/16 in.)
frame: 88.5 × 128.3 × 3.8 cm (34 13/16 × 50 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Herbert C. Schorr, Graduate School Class of 1963, and Mrs. Schorr
Object Number
x1981-108
Place Made
North America, United States
Inscription
Signed and numbered in graphite, bottom line: Alex Kat 30//90
Reference Numbers
Maravell 77
Culture
Materials
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1981", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 41, no. 1 (1982): p. 16-31., p. 26
- Johanna Burton et al., Pop art: contemporary perspectives, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2007), p. 143 (color illus.)
