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David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the fourth of five children of Kenneth Hockney (1904-1978) [13] [14] who was an accountant's clerk who later ran his own accountancy business, [15] and who had been a conscientious objector in the Second World War, and Laura (1900-1999) née Thompson, [16] a devout Methodist and strict vegetarian.
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) is a large acrylic-on-canvas pop art painting by British artist David Hockney, completed in May 1972.It measures 7 ft × 10 ft (2.1 m × 3.0 m), [1] and depicts two figures: one swimming underwater and one clothed male figure looking down at the swimmer.
The work is part of a series of double portraits made by Hockney from 1968, often portraying his friends. Hockney and Clark had been friends since meeting in Manchester in 1961, and Hockney was Clark's best man at his wedding to Birtwell in 1969. Hockney did preparatory work for the painting from 1969, making drawings and taking photographs.
Pages in category "Paintings by David Hockney" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
David Hockney: The Blue Guitar exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, April 10 – July 10, 1979. The Museum of Modern Art holds a solo exhibition dedicated to the suite in the Sachs Galleries, titled David Hockney: The Blue Guitar. Alongside the twenty prints, two cancelled copper plates and five black and white cancellation proofs are also ...
The Splash is the second in a sequence of three paintings of similar scenes made by Hockney in late 1966 and early 1967. Hockney worked up from the small The Little Splash through the midsized The Splash, both made in Los Angeles in 1966, to the largest, A Bigger Splash, approximately 96 in (240 cm) square, made in Berkeley in 1967.
American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) is a 1968 painting by British artist David Hockney. [1] The painting is currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago . [ 2 ] It was accessioned by the museum in 1984 after being donated by Frederic G. Pick and his wife, Frances Weis Pick.
David Hockney (born 1937) Tess Jaray (born 1937) Bryan Organ (born 1935) Margot Perryman (born 1938) William Tillyer (born 1938) Mario Dubsky (1939–1985) John Wonnacott (born 1940) Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002) Sheila Mullen (born 1942) Osi Rhys Osmond (1943–2015) Lindsay Bartholomew (born 1944) Claire Dalby (born 1944) Bruce McLean (born ...