Snow
Print
1973 (printed and published)
1973 (printed and published)
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David Hockney first visited California in 1964 and visited and worked there from time to time until he decided in 1978 to settle there permanently. In 1965 he worked on A Hollywood Collection, a suite of prints, with master printer Ken Tyler, who ran the printmaking studio Gemini GEL. Although he made other prints with Gemini in the years between 1965 and 1973, The Weather Series was the second major suite made there. It is in part inspired by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. This image, with its hilly peaks softened by falling snow against a grey sky, snow laden branches simply depicted on the right, and three soft brown shapes which could be houses, lending scale to the scene, is the most Japanese in feeling.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph and screenprint on paper |
| Brief description | David Hockney: Snow. One of a suite of 6 prints entitled 'The Weather Series' 1973 |
| Physical description | Snowy landscape with hilly peaks soften by falling snow against a grey sky; snow laden leafy branches bending into the picture from the right and 3 small brown shapes which could be houses rapidly being submerged by the snow. The most Japanese in feeling of all the images in this suite of prints |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 50/98 |
| Marks and inscriptions | David Hockney 73/ Snow/ 50/98 (Signed and dated in green crayon. Inscribed with title in blue crayon. Numbered in green crayon. Stamped on the back of the sheet with the printer's/publisher's mark) |
| Gallery label | A quilt of snow
Japanese art inspired David Hockney to make this picture of a snowy scene.
Fresh, white snow can be very beautiful, but not always easy to move through – you’ll need to dress and pack properly.
[Young V&A, Imagine Gallery short object label](2023) |
| Production | Catalogue Raisonné: N = Nottingham: Midland Group Galleries 'David Hockney Prints 1954-1977' Nottingham 1979. Attribution note: From a suite of six prints |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | David Hockney first visited California in 1964 and visited and worked there from time to time until he decided in 1978 to settle there permanently. In 1965 he worked on A Hollywood Collection, a suite of prints, with master printer Ken Tyler, who ran the printmaking studio Gemini GEL. Although he made other prints with Gemini in the years between 1965 and 1973, The Weather Series was the second major suite made there. It is in part inspired by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. This image, with its hilly peaks softened by falling snow against a grey sky, snow laden branches simply depicted on the right, and three soft brown shapes which could be houses, lending scale to the scene, is the most Japanese in feeling. |
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| Other number | N.140 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.56-1975 |
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| Record created | March 21, 2008 |
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