Nancy Lee Katz

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Nancy Lee Katz (June 12, 1947 - March 22, 2018) was an American photographer. [1] Katz "dedicated a period of 25 years to a private project of photographing people, mainly in the arts, whose work she respected. She kept the pictures to herself, never offering them for sale, or for exhibit, or for publication." [2]

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston holds seventy-two of her photographs, including her portraits of Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg, Ravi Shankar, Maya Lin, Martin Puryear and Louise Bourgeois. [3] Her work is also included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, [4] the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, [5] the National Library of France, [6] RISD Museum., [7] Albertina Museum, [8] Library of Congress, [9] Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [10] National Gallery of Art, [11] Royal Collection Trust, [12] George Eastman Museum, [13] Harvard Art Museums. [14] Minneapolis Institute of Art [15] Yale University Art Gallery [16] Princeton University Art Museum [17] Tokyo Photographic Art Museum [18] National Gallery of Victoria [19] Amon Carter Museum of American Art [20] and Victoria and Albert Museum [21]

Malcolm Daniel, Curator of Photography at Museum of Fine Arts Houston, has written a short essay on Katz and Nadar: [22]

Katz’s photographs have appeared in the 2022 exhibition FACES at the Albertina Moderne in Vienna [23] , in the 2021/2022 Barbara Kruger exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago [24] , at the 2011 exhibition Brancusi/Serra at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Fondation Beyeler [25] , and at the 2023-2024 exhibitions Personas and Artists on Artists at the Jewish Museum (New York) [26]

Photographic portraits by Nancy Lee Katz have been published in books and exhibition catalogues, among which: Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra: A Handbook of Possibilities (front cover), [27] Richard Serra: Writings/Interviews (front cover), [28] Alex Katz Cool Paintings (page 215) [29] Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue (page 10 of photograph section), [30] Abakanowicz konfrontacje (page 4), [31] American Muse - The Life and Times of William Schuman (page 318), [32]

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References

  1. ↑ "NANCY KATZ Obituary (2018) New York Times". Legacy.com.
  2. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Nancy Lee Katz". Luminous Lint.
  3. ↑ "Nancy Lee Katz". mfah.org.
  4. ↑ "Nancy Lee Katz". The Art Institute of Chicago.
  5. ↑ "Nancy Lee Katz". collections.mfa.org.
  6. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Recueil. Photographies originales. Oeuvre de Nancy Lee Katz". catalogue.bnf.fr.
  7. ↑ "Nancy Lee Katz | RISD Museum". risdmuseum.org.
  8. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Albertina Museum".
  9. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Library of Congress". Library of Congress .
  10. ↑ ,Katz, Nancy Lee. "Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art".
  11. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "National Gallery of Art".
  12. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Royal Collection Trust".
  13. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "George Eastman Museum".
  14. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Harvard Art Museums".
  15. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Minneapolis Institute of Art".
  16. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Yale University Art Gallery".
  17. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Princeton University Museum of Art".
  18. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "TOP Tokyo Photographic Art Museum". TOPMuseum.jp.
  19. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne".
  20. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Amon Carter Museum of American Art".
  21. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Victoria and Albert Museum".
  22. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Museum of Fine Arts Houston".
  23. ↑ "The Face: Avedon to Newton". MutualArt.com.,
  24. ↑ "Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You". Art Institute of Chicago. 19 September 2021.
  25. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Brancusi/Serra". Fpndation Beyeler.
  26. ↑ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Personas". Jewish Museum.
  27. ↑ Serra, Richard (2011). Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra: A Handbook of Possibilities. Beyeler Museum AG. ISBN   9783775728218.Fondation Beyeler
  28. ↑ Serra, Richard. Richard Serra – Writings/Interviews. University of Chicago Press.
  29. ↑ Katz, Alec. "Alex Katz Cool Paintings". Albertina.
  30. ↑ Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (March 2021). Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520381926.
  31. ↑ Abakanowicz, Magdalena. "Abakanowicz konfrontacje". Zamek Królewski w Warszawie Museum.
  32. ↑ Schuman, William. "American Muse - The Life and Times of William Schuman". Rowman & Littlefeld.


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