Nancy Lee Katz | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 12, 1947 |
| Died | March 22, 2018 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Photographer |
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]
- ^ "NANCY KATZ Obituary (2018) New York Times". Legacy.com.
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Nancy Lee Katz". Luminous Lint.
- ^ "Nancy Lee Katz". mfah.org.
- ^ "Nancy Lee Katz". The Art Institute of Chicago.
- ^ "Nancy Lee Katz". collections.mfa.org.
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Recueil. Photographies originales. Oeuvre de Nancy Lee Katz". catalogue.bnf.fr.
- ^ "Nancy Lee Katz | RISD Museum". risdmuseum.org.
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Albertina Museum".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Library of Congress". Library of Congress.
- ^ ,Katz, Nancy Lee. "Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "National Gallery of Art".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Royal Collection Trust".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "George Eastman Museum".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Harvard Art Museums".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Minneapolis Institute of Art".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Yale University Art Gallery".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Princeton University Museum of Art".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "TOP Tokyo Photographic Art Museum". TOPMuseum.jp.
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Amon Carter Museum of American Art".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Victoria and Albert Museum".
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Museum of Fine Arts Houston".
- ^ "The Face: Avedon to Newton". MutualArt.com.,
- ^ "Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You". Art Institute of Chicago. 19 September 2021.
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Brancusi/Serra". Fpndation Beyeler.
- ^ Katz, Nancy Lee. "Personas". Jewish Museum.
- ^ Serra, Richard (2011). Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra: A Handbook of Possibilities. Beyeler Museum AG. ISBN 9783775728218.Fondation Beyeler
- ^ Serra, Richard. Richard Serra – Writings/Interviews. University of Chicago Press.
- ^ Katz, Alec. "Alex Katz Cool Paintings". Albertina.
- ^ Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (March 2021). Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520381926.
- ^ Abakanowicz, Magdalena (15 December 2022). "Abakanowicz konfrontacje". Zamek Królewski w Warszawie Museum.
- ^ Schuman, William. American Muse - The Life and Times of William Schuman. Rowman & Littlefeld.