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Noontime Gallery Talk | "Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Foundation Collection at the Portland Museum of Art"

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

Free to members or with admission 

Join us every Friday at noon for a 30-minute gallery talk with curators, artists, and community voices exploring art, the PMA Collection, and creative practice.

Join us for a final look at this landmark exhibition, exploring its significance to the PMA Collection and the nuances around what Alex Katz describes as “painting energy” within his select works of art.

Edward Hopper, United States, 1882–1967, Four Dead Trees, 1942, watercolor and pencil on paper, 20 x 28 inches, Gift of the Alex Katz Foundation, 2023.37.6

Marsden Hartley (United States 1877–1943), On the Beach, 1940–1941, oil on Masonite, 22 x 28 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Gift of the Alex Katz Foundation, 2023.37.1. Image courtesy Luc Demers