Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives Collection Spotlight for October 2019

October 20, 2019

This October the Heard Museum welcomes the artwork of David Hockney to the Grand Gallery. An internationally acclaimed artist with a career spanning nearly 70 years, his artwork includes diverse media such as paintings, prints and photography among others. The exhibition will highlight Hockney’s interpretation of Yosemite National Park during different decades of his life and through the use of different media. Here are four selections from the Library collection that offer distinctive vantage points for the artist as he examines his life with a biographer, as he explores his own artwork in a retrospective at 75 and as he expresses his views on art through the ages. These works providing assorted avenues to understanding David Hockney are currently on display in the public reading area of the Library. Please feel free to visit the Library to review these or any other items of interest in the Library and Archives collections. For more details or additional collection information, click on the link labeled Library Catalog Search located in the pull-down menu of the Library tab on the Heard Museum website.

Hockney, David, artist, compiler, author
Hockney’s pictures : the definitive retrospective
New York : Bulfinch Press, ©2004
Heard call number N6797.H57 A4 2004

Hockney, David and Martin Gayford
A history of pictures : from the cave to the computer screen
Farnborough : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2016
Heard call number ND50.H628 2016b

Sykes, Christopher Simon
David Hockney : the biography, 1975-2012 : a pilgrim’s progress
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2014] Heard call number N6757.H57 S953 2014

Sykes, Christopher Simon
David Hockney : the biography, 1937-1975 : a rake’s progress
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2011
Heard call number N6757.H57 S95 2011