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Sep 17, 2026
Tyler GreenHOST
It's the most radical work of culture created by a European American in the United States to date in 1851.
Tyler GreenHOST
Why did you wanna take on over and over again a painting that has been so thoroughly addressed by everybody from kind of Alex Katz on through?
Mark Thomas GibsonGUEST
Yeah, Colescott and all.
Tyler GreenHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Tyler GreenHOST
First of all, it is, shouldn't be, but it is amazing how often white artists in their addresses of the Washington Crossing the Delaware subject, and Leutze in particular, have erased Black presence from the painting.
Mark Thomas GibsonGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Tyler GreenHOST
Roy Lichtenstein in both of his 1951 Washington Crossing the Delawares removes the Black figures, so does Alex Katz.
Tyler GreenHOST
Currier and Ives, of course, notoriously racist, they removed the Black figures.
Amna NawazHOST
Trump administration officials so doubt about recent measles-associated deaths.
Amna NawazHOST
And painter Alex Katz reflects on his career and body of work as he approaches his 100th birthday.
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Geoff BennettHOST
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William BranghamCORRESPONDENT
Thank you.
Paul OffitGUEST
Thank you.
Amna NawazHOST
Artist Alex Katz is an American great who just celebrated his 99th birthday.
Amna NawazHOST
And what better way to celebrate than an exhibition in Nice, France this fall entitled Henri Matisse, Alex Katz.
Margaret WarnerHOST
MARGARET WARNER, Artist Alex Katz is an American great who just celebrated his 99th birthday.
Margaret WarnerHOST
And what better way to celebrate than an exhibition in Nice, France, this fall entitled Henri Matisse, Alex Katz.
Margaret WarnerHOST
Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown recently visited Katz at his home in Maine for our arts and culture series, Canvas.
Margaret WarnerHOST
JEFFREY
Jeffrey BrownCORRESPONDENT
BROWN, Alex Katz is best known as a painter of people, often his friends, very often his wife, Ada.
Jeffrey BrownCORRESPONDENT
and of nature, especially the woods and water around him in his summer home near the coast of Maine.
Jeffrey BrownCORRESPONDENT
The painting for him is about capturing what he's called quick things passing.
Alex KatzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know? It's very sparse, right? Nothing's there.
speaker_0HOST
Trump administration officials so doubt about recent measles-associated deaths.
speaker_0HOST
And painter Alex Katz reflects on his career and body of work as he approaches his 100th birthday.
speaker_5ANNOUNCER
This is the PBS NewsHour from the David M. Rubenstein Studio at WETA in Washington, headquarters of PBS News.
speaker_0HOST
Trump administration officials so doubt about recent measles-associated deaths.
speaker_0HOST
And painter Alex Katz reflects on his career and body of work as he approaches his 100th birthday.
speaker_5ANNOUNCER
This is the PBS NewsHour from the David M. Rubenstein Studio at WETA in Washington, headquarters of PBS News.