Marshall P. Katz

Background

Marshall Katz was born on September 17, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, to Joseph M. Katz and Agnes R. Katz.

Education

Marshall graduated from Cornell University, in 1961 and later served in the U.S. Coast Guard.

Career

In 1982, Mr. Katz became chief executive of Papercraft, the household consumer products business his family founded. The business, where Mr. Katz worked for 28 years, was known for products including Ty-D-Bol toilet bowl cleaner, Esquire shoe polish, Mountain Tree artificial Christmas trees, Papercraft giftware and LePage’s tapes and adhesives. Mr. Katz served as president of the business until his retirement in 1989.

Marshall kept busy in retirement, serving on the boards of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Pittsburgh Opera, the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. He wrote three books and more than 25 magazine articles on Palissy ware.

Works

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• book

  • Palissy Ware: Nineteenth-century French Ceramists from Avisseau to Renoleau by Marshall P. Katz (1996-07-30) 1996
  • 19th Century French Followers of Palissy: 1994

Personality

Mr. Katz himself was an avid art collector. He collected modern and contemporary art as well as decorative and fine art objects.

Interests

• Contemporary art, fine wines, ceramics.

Connections

On June 13, 1965, Mr. Katz married Wallis, the daughter of family friends. They gave birth to their daughter Lauren S. Katz.

Father:

Joseph M. Katz

Mother:

Agnes R. Katz

Wife:

Wallis Fisk

Daughter:

Lauren S. Katz

Sister:

Andrea McCutcheon