The Metropolitan Museum of Art will honor artist David Hockney on his 80th birthday with a retrospective kicking off November 27th.
The exhibition features some of the artist’s most memorable masterpieces created from 1960 through the present day. Hockney was born in Britain (West Yorkshire) and attended both the Bradford School of Arts and Royal College of Art in London. The artist had his first one-man show in 1963 and went on to worked in a wide range of media — including painting, drawing, photography and video. He is openly gay and has explored same-sex attractions in works such as We Two Boys Together Clinging and Domestic Scene, Los Angeles. Among Hockney’s honors are a Foreign Honorary Membership to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lorenzo de’Medici Lifetime Career Award (for the Florence Bienniale in Italy in 2003. He was also offered a knighthood in 1990, which he declined, though he accepted an Order of Merit in 2012). Today, many of Hockney’s works are usually kept in Salt Mill near his home in Bradford. Noted writer Christopher Isherwood collected a significant number of Hockney’s pieces, and after Isherwood’s death, those works were donated to galleries around the world. Many will be reunited at The Met’s exhibition, which will run through February 25. metmuseum.org
- David Hockney A Closer Winter Tunnel, February – March 2006 Oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Purchased with funds provided by Geoff and Vicki Ainsworth, the Florence and William Crosby Bequest and the Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation, 2007 © David Hockney, Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt
- David Hockney A Bigger Interior with Blue Terrace and Garden 2017 Acrylic on canvas Collection of the artist © David Hockney, Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt
- David Hockney—California Art Collector
- David Hockney Celia in a Black Dress with White Flowers 1972 Crayon on paper Collection of Victor Constantiner, New York © David Hockney, Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt
- David Hockney Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy 1970-1971 Acrylic on canvas Tate, presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1971 © David Hockney, Photo Credit: ©Tate, London 2017
- David Hockney Colorado River 1998 Oil on canvas Private collection, courtesy of Richard Gray Gallery © David Hockney, Photo Credit: Tom Van Eynde
- David Hockney Garden 2015 Acrylic on canvas Collection of the artist © David Hockney, Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt
- David Hockney Henry Geldzahler & Christopher Scott 1969 Acrylic on canvas Collection of Barney A. Ebsworth © David Hockney, Photo credit: Richard Schmidt
- David Hockney Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy 1968 Acrylic on canvas Private collection © David Hockney
- David Hockney Large Interior, Los Angeles 1988 Oil, ink on cut-and-pasted paper, on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Natasha Gelman Gift, in honor of William S. Lieberman, 1989 (1989.279) © David Hockney
- David Hockney— Man in Shower in Beverly Hills 1964 Acrylic on canvas Tate, purchased 1980 © David Hockney, Photo Credit: ©Tate, London 2017
- David Hockney Mt. Fuji and Flowers 1972 Acrylic on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger Gift, 1972 (1972.128) © David Hockney
- David Hockney Nichols Canyon 1980 Acrylic on canvas Private collection © David Hockney, Photo Credit: Prudence Cuming Associates
- David Hockney Pool and Steps, Le Nid du Duc 1971 Acrylic on canvas Private collection © David Hockney
- David Hockney Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) 1972 Acrylic on canvas The Lewis Collection © David Hockney, Photo Credit: Art Gallery of New South Wales / Jenni Carter
Last modified: June 19, 2018