More Hockney in the Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford.

“Bradford Indoor Market” and “Artist’s Family at Tea”:-

“A Bounce for Bradford,” part of a morale boosting campaign for the City in 1987 after the fire at Valley Parade:-

“Autumn” from 1954:-

“Moorside Road from 1955:-

Untitled late work made on an iPad:-

Artist David Hockney (who died in June) is one of Bradford’s most famous sons. The Cartwright Memorial Hall and Gallery holds several of his works. Two of them are the Bradford Phone Book for 1989 and A Travel Guide to Bradford from 1992:-

Le Plongeur (Paper Pool 18) is a more typical Hockney:-

Early drawings:-

Pencil Drawings:-

Street Scene on Hillside:-

David Hockney: 9/7/1937 – 11/6/2026. So it goes.

This Exhibition is at the Scottish National Gallery, Princes Street, Edinburgh but alas only till 25/2/24. The good lady and I only managed to get to it last week.

One of Hokusai’s views of Mount Fuji: “Sudden shower below the summit” from 36 views of mount Fuji:-

Kasawe Hasul’s Shin Ōhashi Bridge from Twenty Views of Tokyo:-

Concert Hall by Sybil Andrews. I liked the very Art Deco feel of this:-

A Picasso print. It looks like a ‘face’ playing card:-

Toulouse Lautrec’s ‘Jane Avril’. I grew up with Toulouse Lautrec’s prints on my grandparents’ and, later, parents’ walls. I inherited a couple which now hang in my bedroom.

There was a Hockney:-

a Vanessa Bell:-

and I rather liked this John Piper offering:-

If you want to see it you’ll have to be quick. The exhibition is due to end on Sunday.