Biography A pioneer of the British Pop Art movement in the early 1960s alongside Richard Hamilton, David Hockney gained recognition for his semi-abstract paintings on the theme of homosexual love before it was decriminalized in England in 1967.
Additional support is provided by the Rita Markus Fund for Exhibitions, with assistance from Dian Woodner and David and Tanya Wells. An exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in collaboration with the artist and the Morgan Library & Museum.
Each of these individuals have been important to Hockney. A versatile artist, Hockney has produced work in almost every medium—including full-scale opera set designs, prints, and drawings using cutting-edge technology such as fax machines, laser photocopiers, computers, and even iPhones and iPads. The exhibition will be unique in exploring Hockney’s practice on paper through a small group of sitters he has depicted repeatedly over the years: his muse and confidante, the designer Celia Birtwell; his mother; his friend and curator Gregory Evans, master printer Maurice Payne; and the artist himself. David Hockney: Drawing from Life is made possible by Mr. and Mrs. Robert King Steel and Katharine J. Rayner. 3300–2000 B.C. Written in Stone Historic Inscriptions from the Ancient Near East, ca. Get the latest news on the events, trends, and people that shape the global art market with our daily newsletter. In re-visiting these people over decades, Hockney gives us a unique insight into how his practice has evolved over time. David Hockney, Self Portrait with Red Braces, 2003, Watercolor on paper, 24 x 18 1/8 inches, © David Hockney, Photography by Richard Schmidt. Contemporary Art, Drawings and Works on Paper, Pop Art, Prints and Multiples, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Richard Hamilton, Henri Matisse, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972 225 Madison AvenueNew York, NY 10016 (212) 685-0008. After moving to California at the end of 1963, Hockney began painting scenes of the sensual and uninhibited life of athletic young men, depicting swimming pools, palm trees, and perpetual sunshine. Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera, Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors, New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004, On the Money: Cartoons for The New Yorker From the Melvin R. Seiden Collection, Pages of Gold: Medieval Illuminations from the Morgan, Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan, Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection, The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Acquisitions Since 2002, Where the Wild Things Are: Original Drawings by Maurice Sendak, Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers, Draftsmen of the Medici Court: Drawings from the Morgan, Drawing Connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the Old Masters, Michelangelo, Vasari, and Their Contemporaries Drawings from the Uffizi, Painted with Words: Vincent van Gogh's Letters to Émile Bernard, Apocalypse Then: Medieval Illuminations from the Morgan, Celebrating Rembrandt: Etchings from the Morgan, From Berlin to Broadway The Ebb Bequest of Modern German and Austrian Drawings, From Rembrandt to van Gogh: Dutch Drawings from the Morgan, New Acquisition: Albrecht Dürer's Adam and Eve, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, Tales and Travels: Drawings Recently Acquired on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund, The Morgan–Renzo Piano Building Workshop Project with a Brief History, Morgan Medieval Masterworks on View at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library, The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible, To Observe and Imagine: British Drawings and Watercolors from the Morgan Library, 1600–1900, Picturing Natural History: Flora and Fauna in Drawings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books, The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994, The Book of Kings Art: War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible, David to Cézanne: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings, A Love Affair with Line: Drawings by Al Hirschfeld, Honor, Glory, Adventure: Books for Boys in the Age of Pierpont Morgan, A Child's Garland of Songs: Music for and by Children, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Jean Poyer: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France, Gold Vessel in the Form of an Ostrich Egg, From Bruegel to Rubens: Netherlandish and Flemish Drawings, New York Collects: Drawings and Watercolors, 1900–1950, The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic. Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal, Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan, Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet, Modern and Contemporary Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, The Extended Moment: Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada, Invention and Design: Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan, By Any Means: Contemporary Drawings from the Morgan, Beautiful Youths: Dandies from the Read Persian Album, Views of Rome and Naples: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection, Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, The Magic of Handwriting: The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection, Thomas Gainsborough: Experiments in Drawing, Joseph Cornell: The Saint-Exupéry Dossier, Rivers and Torrents: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection, A Merchant Ivory Production: Highlights from the James Ivory Collection, Now and Forever: The Art of Medieval Time, Tennessee Williams: No Refuge but Writing, Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens, Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas, Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection, Magnificent Gems: Medieval Treasure Bindings, Poussin, Claude, and French Drawing in the Classical Age, I’m Nobody! ©2020 Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Over time he has rendered them in different forms: pencil, pen and ink, etchings, photocollages, iphone and ipad drawings. This exhibition will be the first to focus on his portraits on paper and one of very few exhibitions to investigate his drawing practice. Founding Figures: Copper Sculpture from Ancient Mesopotamia, ca. David Hockney, (born July 9, 1937, Bradford, Yorkshire, England), English painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer whose works were characterized by economy of technique, a preoccupation with light, and a frank mundane realism derived from Pop art and photography. David Hockney: Drawing from Life: Docent Tour, Poetry and Patronage: The Laubespine-Villeroy Library Rediscovered, Beethoven 250: Autograph Music Manuscripts by Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect. Experimenting with photography in the mid-1970s, Hockney went on to create his famous photocollages with Polaroids and snapshot prints arranged in a grid formation, pushing the two-dimensionality of photography to the limit, fragmenting the monocular vision of the camera and activating the viewer in the process. David Hockney (b. Trees: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection, Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World, Pierre-Jean Mariette and the Art of Collecting Drawings, Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts, Exploring France: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection, Hidden Likeness: Photographer Emmet Gowin and the Morgan, William Caxton and the Birth of English Printing, Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso, A Certain Slant of Light: Spencer Finch at the Morgan, Lincoln Speaks: Words that Transformed a Nation, Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, Piranesi and the Temples of Paestum: Drawings from Sir John Soane’s Museum, Hebrew Illumination for Our Time: The Art of Barbara Wolff, The Untamed Landscape: Théodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon, Handmade: Artists' Holiday Cards from the Archives of American Art, Sky Studies: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection, From Here to Here: Richard McGuire Makes a Book, A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany, Marks of Genius: Treasures from the Bodleian Library, Miracles in Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France, Gatsby to Garp: Modern Masterpieces from the Carter Burden Collection, Medium as Muse: Woodcuts and the Modern Book, A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play, Visions and Nightmares: Four Centuries of Spanish Drawings, Leonardo da Vinci: Treasures from the Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings, Bookermania: 45 Years of the Man Booker Prize, "Lose not heart": J. D. Salinger's Letters to an Aspiring Writer, Reflections on a Nation: American Writings from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney, Degas, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando, Beethoven's Ninth: A Masterpiece Reunited, Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art, Marcel Proust and Swann's Way: 100th Anniversary, Dürer to de Kooning: 100 Master Drawings from Munich, Summer Sculpture Series: Monika Grzymala, Volumen, Fantasy and Invention: Rosso Fiorentino and Sixteenth-Century Florentine Drawing, In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan, Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper, Rembrandt's World: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection, Renaissance Venice: Drawings from the Morgan, Robert Wilson/Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach, Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan, David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre, Great European Libraries: Photographs by Massimo Listri, Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Smithsonian, Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968, The Age of Elegance: The Joan Taub Ades Collection, The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives, A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy, Anne Morgan's War: Rebuilding Devastated France, 1917–1924, Defining Beauty: Albrecht Dürer at the Morgan, Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Flemish Illumination in the Era of Catherine of Cleves, Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey, Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings, Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design, William Blake's World: "A New Heaven Is Begun".
Saturday, October 10, 2020, 11 AM–12:30 PM, Saturday, November 14, 2020, 11 AM–12:30 PM, Saturday, December 12, 2020, 11 AM –12:30 PM. Represented by internationally reputable galleries.
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