Alex Katz
He had his first art show in 1954. He was friends with many poets in New York, such as Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Edwin Denby. Many creative people are in his paintings, such as choreographer Paul Taylor, Denby, O’Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, the filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt, and the dancer Bill T. Jones.