A Chicago-born (January 8, 1923) and educated Expressionist* artist, Herbert Katzman was noted for his unique, textured paintings as well as sculpture. Known as a slatherer, he used a palette knife*... Read full biography
A Chicago-born (January 8, 1923) and educated Expressionist* artist, Herbert Katzman was noted for his unique, textured paintings as well as sculpture. Known as a slatherer, he used a palette knife* to put thick layers of paint on canvas to give it a dense look. His father, Louis, was a successful... Read full biography
A Chicago-born (January 8, 1923) and educated Expressionist* artist, Herbert Katzman was noted for his unique, textured paintings as well as sculpture. Known as a slatherer, he used a palette knife* to put thick layers of paint on canvas to give it a dense look. His father, Louis, was a successful dentist and his mother Faye a homemaker. When Herbert was 11, his mother died, and he and his older brother Bob were raised by their father and a housekeeper. The brothers attended St. John's Military... Read full biography
A Chicago-born (January 8, 1923) and educated Expressionist* artist, Herbert Katzman was noted for his unique, textured paintings as well as sculpture. Known as a slatherer, he used a palette knife* to put thick layers of paint on canvas to give it a dense look. His father, Louis, was a successful dentist and his mother Faye a homemaker. When Herbert was 11, his mother died, and he and his older brother Bob were raised by their father and a housekeeper. The brothers attended St. John's Military Academy for their elementary education, but Herbert soon discovered that he wanted to study art despite the objection of his father. He put himself through school working as a student janitor and a few other odd jobs. At 17 he entered the Advanced... Read full biography
A Chicago-born (January 8, 1923) and educated Expressionist* artist, Herbert Katzman was noted for his unique, textured paintings as well as sculpture. Known as a slatherer, he used a palette knife* to put thick layers of paint on canvas to give it a dense look. His father, Louis, was a successful dentist and his mother Faye a homemaker. When Herbert was 11, his mother died, and he and his older brother Bob were raised by their father and a housekeeper. The brothers attended St. John's Military Academy for their elementary education, but Herbert soon discovered that he wanted to study art despite the objection of his father. He put himself through school working as a student janitor and a few other odd jobs. At 17 he entered the Advanced School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his interest having turned from sculpting to painting.... Read full biography
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About Herbert Katzman: Books
Books & Publications (30)
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Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman's New York (Museum of the City of New York)
2010
Blaut, Julia, Alison Lurie, Katherine Manthorne and Jillian Russo
144 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Record of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition, 1896-1996 (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings
1979
West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr.
202 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
1968
Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
463 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1966
1966
Editors
0 pages
Forty Artists under Forty From the Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Goodrich, Lloyd/Edward Bryant
48 pages (color)
Art U S A Now (2 volumes)
1962
Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness
474 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
Fulbright Painters: Exhibits Organized by the Smithsonian Institution in Cooperation with the Institute of International Education (Exhibition catalog)
1958
Goodrich, Lloyd
48 pages
American Artists Paint the City (38th Biennale/Venice 1956) (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Kuh, Katherine
47 pages (color)
American Painting Today
1956
Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed)
127 pages (color)
The New Decade 35 American Painters and Sculptors (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Baur, John I H/Rosalind Irvine
96 pages
15 Americans (Exhibition catalog)
1952
Miller, Dorothy (editor)
47 pages
The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art