Oil paint on fibreboard
Environment
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alex-katz-1386" aria-label="More by Alex Katz" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Alex Katz</a>
Ocean
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
beach
daisy
grass
plants and flowers
sea
seascapes and coasts
painting oil paint fibreboard
14 March 2009 – 8 November 2009
2009-11-08
12 March 2009 – 8 November 2009
2009-11-08
2009-03-12
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
2009-03-14
ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz
Collection based display
20 November 2010 – 12 March 2011
2011-03-12
20 November 2010 – 12 March 2011
2011-03-12
2010-11-20
Oriel Mostyn (Llandudno, UK)
http://www.mostyn.org/home.php?/Home
2010-11-20
ARTIST ROOMS 2010: Alex Katz
Loan-out
26 March 2011 – 4 June 2011
2011-06-04
26 March 2011 – 4 June 2011
2011-06-04
2011-03-26
Pier Arts Centre (Stromness, UK)
http://www.pierartscentre.com/
2011-03-26
ARTIST ROOMS 2011: Alex Katz & Cy Twombly
Loan-out
19 May 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
19 May 2012 – 23 September 2012
2012-09-23
2012-05-19
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
6 October 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
2012-10-06
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2012-05-19
Alex Katz: Give me tomorrow
Exhibition
1 October 2012 – 31 January 2013
2013-01-31
1 October 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
2012-10-01
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2012-10-01
Alex Katz: Give me tomorrow
Loan-out
18 July 2013 – 31 October 2013
2013-10-31
18 July 2013 – 31 October 2013
2013-10-31
2013-07-18
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough, UK)
http://www.visitmima.com/
2013-07-18
Beneath the Surface
Loan-out
23 November 2018 – 10 March 2019
2019-03-10
23 November 2018 – 10 March 2019
2019-03-10
2018-11-23
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2018-11-23
ARTIST ROOMS Alex Katz
Collection based display
30 March 2019 – 16 June 2019
2019-06-16
30 March 2019 – 16 June 2019
2019-06-16
2019-03-30
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust (Carlisle, UK)
2019-03-30
ARTIST ROOMS 2019: Alex Katz
Tate partnerships & programmes
Ocean View
support: 231 × 320 × 6 mm
frame: 251 × 315 × 34 mm
<a href="/search?gid=999999788" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">ARTIST ROOMS</a>
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>In this small study Katz has combined two of his favourite subjects: flowers and landscape. He has been painting American landscapes since the 1950s, often during summer residencies in Maine. The broad bands of colour and expressive marks reveal an interest in abstract expressionist painting. Katz is well-known for his large-scale paintings whose bold simplicity and unmodulated colours are now seen as precursors of Pop Art. Small oil paintings such as this one are sketched from life and often intended to be scaled up into larger works, but their economic execution and visible brushstrokes reveal an intimate side to his practice. He says, "A sketch is very direct. It is working empirically, inside of an idea."</p>

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beach daisy grass plants and flowers sea seascapes and coasts