Howard Hodgkin

Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin, contemporary abtract painter and collector of Indian Art, was born in London on August 6,1932. His great-grandfather was Thomas Hodgkin who described the glandular disease, later called Hodgkin's Disease. After the Second World War a rich relative paid for him to attend Eton where he was unhappy and kept running away. He later went to Camberwell Art School, and then to Bath Academy of Art Corsham where he taught from 1955-1966. His first one man show was in London in 1962. He has two sons from a marriage to Julia Lane. His later work is preoccupied with the emotional connections of memory. He has been a trustee of the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery in London. He won the Turner Prize of the Tate Gallery in 1985 and was knighted in 1992. In addition to paintings Hodgkin is also well known for work in the print media.(i.e. etching, silkscreen)

Howard Hodgkin Images:
Afternoon
Learning About Russian Music
Moonlight