ARTIST ROOMS: Alex Katz at Tate Liverpool

Name: ARTIST ROOMS: Alex Katz at Tate Liverpool
Start: 2018-11-23T10:00:00
End: 2019-03-17T17:00:00
Location: Tate Liverpool

Creative Tourist Posted 28 November 2018

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ARTIST ROOMS: Alex Katz

Tate Liverpool, Waterfront

23 November 2018-17 March 2019

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ARTIST ROOMS: Alex Katz at Tate Liverpool — Alex Katz, Pansies 1967. © Alex Katz

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Tate Liverpool presents work by Alex Katz, one of the most important and respected living American artists of the past 50 years. With a remarkable career spanning six decades, ARTIST ROOMS: Alex Katz presents a focused selection of 19 landscape paintings made between 1967 and the late 1990s. With their bright and bold palette, Katz’s paintings present a modern American take on the classical themes of landscapes, marine scenes and flowers.

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