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Alex Katz was born on July 24, 1927 in Brooklyn , NY. Katz is probably best known as a printer but he also did paintings , drawing, sculptures, collages, and painted cut-out figures .He has also done some set design for the choreographer Paul Taylor in 1960. Alex Katz was born on July 24, 1927 in Brooklyn , NY. In 1928 moves to St. Albans, Queens with his family. After serving in WW2 he studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in NY from 1946-49, and then at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine from 1949-50. During the 1950's Alex was influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock and other abstract Expressionists .During this time he produced swiftly executed pictures of trees as well as several works based on photographs. By the mid-1950s, he was working from life, they where brightly colored works of landscape, interi