David Hockney

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David Hockney

by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 5 July 1977
18 1/2 in. x 14 7/8 in. (470 mm x 378 mm)
Given by The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation, 2007
Primary Collection
NPG P1183

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  • David Hockney (1937-), Artist. Sitter in 49 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 15 portraits.

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  • 100 Photographs, 2018, p. 105 Read entry

    Bradford-born David Hockney (b.1937) studied at the Royal College of Art and became a leading figure in Pop Art. His first retrospective was held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1970. Bern Schwartz (1914-78), an American businessman, took up photography in the early 1970s as a second career. In just a few years, he made memorable studies of many well-known personalities of the time including artists, politicians and royalty. The Bern Schwartz Foundation donated 140 original dye-transfer prints to the National Portrait Gallery in 2007.

  • Sarah Howgate, David Hockney: Drawing from life, 2020 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 27 February to 28 June 2020), p. 191

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Current affairs

In celebration of her 25th year as Queen, Elizabeth II tours the British Isles visiting communities and schools in 36 counties, before touring the commonwealth. Across the country people held street parties to celebrate the occasion; there were 4,000 street parties in London alone.

Art and science

British punk rockers, The Sex Pistols, release the single, God Save The Queen to coincide with the Silvery Jubilee celebrations. The single reached Number 2 in the charts among claims that it was being kept off the top spot for political reasons. The band was arrested for trying to perform the song from a boat on the Thames during the Queen's Royal Progress trip down the river.

International

Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack aged 42. His body was discovered collapsed on the bathroom floor of his Graceland mansion in Memphis by his fiancée Ginger Alden. Rumours that the star is actually still alive but in hiding continue to perpetuate among diehard fans.

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