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The exhibition features nearly 200 works spanning over six decades of Hockney’s career — from his earliest etchings in the mid-1950s and ’60s to his recent experiments with iPad and ...
Hockney’s Drawing from Life exhibition puts visitors up close and personal with some of the beloved artist’s most important sitters
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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.
The Modern has a renowned collection of international post-war work and an outstanding collection of modern Scottish art. The post-war collection features art by Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Joan Eardley and Alan Davie, with more recent works by artists including Douglas Gordon, Antony Gormley, Robert Priseman and Tracey Emin.
One of the works displayed, the 60 canvas A Bigger Grand Canyon (1998). In 2007 the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao stated [1] they had no desire to do a retrospective of Hockney’s works instead, focussing on his current work around his return to the UK, specifically his native Yorkshire, after a long stay in California.
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