O'Hara in particular 'became my hero... he has an emotional extension that I really admired.' O'Hara's 1960s text on Katz is among the most perceptive on him. 'He has the stubbornness of the 'great American tradition' in the dominating face of European influences,' the poet wrote, articulating the central tension in Katz's painting; Katz speaks of allying the 'muscularity' of post-war US painters with the pictorial and emotional sophistication of Europeans including Cézanne and Bonnard.
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