Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and spent his childhood in the city’s suburbs. His interest in art and poetry, encouraged by his parents since an early age, led him to enroll at the Cooper Union School in Manhattan. There, he received a rigorous training in the fine and applied arts. During those years, he rode the train quite a bit to make it to school and he made the most of his train rides by sketching the population of the train, but also sketching the view of park