Dorothy Hodgkin

Sitterback to top

• Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), Chemist and crystallographer. Sitter associated with 17 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Maggi Hambling (1945-), Painter. Artist of 8 portraits, Sitter in 13 portraits.

This portraitback to top

Painted in Hodgkin's study at home in Warwickshire, a structural model of the four molecules of insulin stands in the foreground. The artist presents Hodgkin immersed in her work. Two pairs of hands convey energy and activity. Their appearance also refers to the subject's acute arthritis, contracted when she was 28.

Linked publicationsback to top

• Audio Guide
• Gibson, Robin; Clerk, Honor, 20th Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery Collection, 1993, p. 26
• Hackmann, W.D., Apples and Atoms: Portraits of Scientists from Newton to Rutherford, 1986, p. 83
• Hart-Davis, Adam, Chain Reactions, 2000, p. 181
• Jordanova, Ludmilla, Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits 1660-2000, 2000 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 14 April to 17 September 2000), p. 154
• Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery: An Illustrated Guide, 2000, p. 221
• Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery, 1997, p. 221
• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 306

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• Britain 1960-1990 (From 18 September 2004)

Subjects & Themesback to top

• Commissions - Paintings and Drawings
• Eyeglasses and spectacles
• Reading
• Writing