The Panama Hat
Hockney has experimented with a variety of techniques, including digital printing, lithography, photocopying, and screenprinting, and apparatuses such as the fax machine. Etching, a printmaking technique akin to drawing, was particularly conducive to the illustrative style he developed in the 1960s, marked by an emphasis on crisp lines and images isolated within near-empty fields. Over the course of his long career, Hockney made numerous conventional portraits of Henry Geldzahler, his friend and curator of twentieth-century art at The Met. This portrait stands out among the group, as Gehldzahler’s jacket, pipe, and hat represent their absent owner.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Panama Hat
- Artist: David Hockney (British, born Bradford, 1937)
- Publisher: Published by Brooke Alexander, Inc. (New York)
- Printer: Printed by The Print Shop
- Date: 1972
- Medium: Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions: plate: 17 11/16 x 14 9/16 in. (45 x 37 cm)
sheet: 16 9/16 x 16 15/16 in. (42 x 43 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott, in memory of John J. McKendry, 1975
- Object Number: 1975.599.7
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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