David Hockney

Posted by Kiki Anderson Dec 18, 2008

While writing David Hockney: A Year in Yorkshire I learned that he continued that landscape series after the show, and made even larger panel paintings. The largest, with 50 panels in all, he donated to the Tate Britain gallery in March.

His career has gone through interesting transformations. His early work recalls Francis Bacon. Once he moved to California, pools became a recurring image. After his studies on optical devices used in painting, he returned to England to paint landscapes. He is one of Britain's biggest artists of the twentieth century. Giving the largest painting he has ever made to his homeland's behemoth art institution seems an impressive full circle.