Alex Katz Works Online
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Original works by Alex Katz available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
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Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
32 works online
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Canoe, 1974
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Homage to Frank O'Hara: William Dunas, 1972
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Alex Katz at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
19 works online when last checked
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
Alex (Self Portrait)
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Jessica
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Edwin Denby, 1964
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Beach Scene, ca.1957
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
untitled (Skowhegan, Maine landscape), 1960
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Scroll down the alphabetical list for 5 works by Katz
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Kenneth Koch
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
7 works online
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #21
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jacobs Gallery at Georgetown College, Kentucky
Woman in Gray Striped Jacket, 1981
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Cow, 1984
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Coleman Pond II, 1995
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Click "Preview Tour" to see works from this 2004 exhibition
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Black and Gold, 2007
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian) 
Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Red Band
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Washington
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands
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Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism
Dark Glasses, 1989
Alex Katz at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina, Vienna
Jessica, 2007
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Red Coat, 1972
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Self-Portrait with Sunglasses, 1969
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
Ada at Table (recto view)
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Miscellaneous Sites:
British Council Arts Group
Crown Point Press
Time Magazine Cover Archive
John Updike, 1982
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Art Interview Online Magazine
Interview with the artist (a longer version is available if you subscribe to the website)
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Interview with the artist
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Alex Katz: Small Paintings
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Woods in Twilight, 2002
Alex and Ada
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Aqua Sweatshirt, 1983
ARTnews
Vincent and Sunny, 1967
Journal of Contemporary Art Online
Interview with the artist
Alex Katz at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1969 interview from the Oral History project
Smithsonian Magazine
"Alex Katz Is Cooler Than Ever"
The Brooklyn Rail
Interview with the artist
The New York Observer
"Two Wonderful Shows: Painter Alex Katz Having Big Summer", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Alex Katz's Attack Of Nine-Foot Women Cheerfully Grotesque", article by Hilton Kramer
Time Magazine
"The Rockwell of the Intelligentsia", 1986 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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