Sir Howard Hodgkin
Born: 1932
Hometown: London, England
Lives and Works: London, England
Website: http://www.howard-hodgkin.com
Education:
Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, England, 1954
Camberwell School of Art, London, England, 1950
About The Artist
The recipient of the 1985 Turner Prize and grudgingly knighted in 1992, Howard Hodgkin is recognized as a seasoned champion of British art. Born into a well-to-do English family, Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was surrounded by collectors from a young age, which allegedly made his decision to become an artist all the more difficult thanks to the suffocation of a family of critics.
Arguably maintaining a stylistically consistent body of work throughout his over fifty-year career, Hodgkin’s work hovers between the abstract and the semi-abstract. It can be easily recognized by the lushly colored, deceivingly careless-looking brushstrokes that appear frozen in space on over-scaled colorscapes spilling over rustic, wooden frames, and canvases.
Galleries
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Works by the Artist
