It’s always heartening to hear about life going on in this oppressive Lockdown (socially distanced naturally). So this piece of joy landed in our in box this morning and it really needs sharing
The Morgan Library & Museum in New York’s latest Exhibition has just opened. Its called Drawing From Life and is the work of David Hockney probably the world’s greatest living queer artist
Featuring about 100 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. 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.
The exhibition will trace a trajectory from Hockney’s early works as a student, to his Ingres-like portraits of the 1970s, and his return to the sketchbooks in the early 2000s.
David Hockney: Drawing From Life Oct. 2 through May 30 at the Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Manhattan; 212-685-0008, https://www.themorgan.org
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Th Exhibition originated in the National Portrait Gallery In London early this year : here is a s trailer they made for it
Labels: 2020, art, David Hockney, exhibit, The Morgan
