David Hockney “Self Portrait” (1954), collage on newsprint, 16 1⁄2 x 11 3⁄4 inches (© David Hockney, photo by Richard Schmidt; Bradford Museums & Galleries, Bradford, UK, all images courtesy National ...

There is a traditional, proper way to celebrate the milestone birthday of a famous artist: to organize a large, dramatic retrospective covering decades of his or her career. And that is precisely what ...

In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo curator Julian Brooks looks at David Hockney's self-portraits, iPad drawings printed on paper, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. The aspiring artist was 17 ...

Almost the first things we encounter on entering the illuminating survey “David Hockney: Drawing from Life” at the Morgan Library & Museum are a couple of self-portraits done in 1954 by the precocious ...

David Hockney is one of the world’s most famous living artists. Born in England in 1937 and renowned almost as much for his embrace of technology as for his inventive use of color and bold rendering ...

David Hockney’s “Home Made Prints” series from the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. Image by RJ Sanchez; Image courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum When I think of Hockney, ...

In this Wednesday, June 21, 2017 photo Alexandria Sivak, a senior communications specialist from J. Paul Getty Trust, reads a brief description of David Hockney's self-portraits in the exhibition hall ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The aspiring artist was 17 when he took pencil to paper in 1954 and sketched a stunningly mirror-like image of himself as a student at England’s Bradford School of Art. In the 63 ...