Four American Artists Honored at Venice Biennale

Jim Dine isn't the only American to benefit from an exhibition in conjunction with this year's Venice Biennale. One of the others is alive: Alex Katz, presenting his recent works. Two are dead: Willem De Kooning (1904-1997) and Robert Indiana (1928-2018). Ever since Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) won the event's painting prize in 1964 – a historic first for an American – hardly a Biennale has gone by without an artist from the United States being honored. But four at once seems like a record.