MAINE IN AMERICA 2023: celebrating the alex katz foundation

On view through September 24, 2023

The Farnsworth Art Museum is currently taking tremendous steps to grow its collection to be more inclusive of a wider range of modern art forms and of artists from different backgrounds. As we look both to our history and to the future on our 75th anniversary, it felt apt to give our 2023 Maine in America award —intended to honor an individual or group who has made an outstanding contribution to Maine’s role in American art—to the Alex Katz Foundation.

Katz is a pivotal figure of Maine art who received this award individually in 2010. We are pleased to recognize the Alex Katz Foundation this year for its commitment to contemporary art and the careers of living artists. A selection of the Foundation’s gifts of art to the Farnsworth are on view in Maine in America 2023.

The Museum celebrates the Alex Katz Foundation with programs and events including the Farnsworth 75th Anniversary Gala.