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Mist

Print
1973 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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. The Weather Series was the second major suite made at Gemini and is inspired in part by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. This image shows a row of three Californian palm trees and a building in a misty landscape, the colouring and impressionistic treatment of which is reminiscent of Monet's studies of light over the Thames or in French hayfields.


Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Mist (assigned by artist)
  • The Weather Series (series title)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph and screenprint on paper
Brief description
David Hockney: Mist. One of a suite of 6 prints entitled 'The Weather Series' 1973
Physical description
a row of three palm trees receding in clarity and height from left to right. On the left of the image, behind the trees, a building also receding into mist. Pinkish sky with greyish blue trees and building.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 94cm
  • Sheet width: 81.2cm
  • Printed area height: 735mm
  • Printed area width: 635mm
Production typeLimited edition
Copy number
50/98
Marks and inscriptions
David Hockney 73/ Mist / 50/98 (Signed and dated, inscribed with title and numbered in blue crayon.)
Production
Catalogue Raisonné: N= Nottingham: Midland Group Galleries: 'David Hockney Prints 1954-1977.' Nottingham 1979
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. The Weather Series was the second major suite made at Gemini and is inspired in part by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. This image shows a row of three Californian palm trees and a building in a misty landscape, the colouring and impressionistic treatment of which is reminiscent of Monet's studies of light over the Thames or in French hayfields.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • N. 138: N= Nottingham: Midland Group Galleries: 'David Hockney Prints 1954-1977' Nottingham, 1979. Photocopies of the printing documentation are available for reference in the Departmental fies under Hockney. These show signatures of the printers involved [information taken from old paper catalogue sheets]
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Registers: 1975
  • Print Documentation from Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, signed by Master Printer Kenneth Tyler and David Hockney Taken from Departmental Circulation Registers: 1975
  • Stephen Coppel, Catherine Daunt, Susan Tallman ; with contributions from Isabel Seligman and Jennifer Ramkalawon The America Dream: pop to the present London : Thames & Hudson, in collaboration with the British Museum, 2017.
Other number
N.138
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.58-1975

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Record createdMarch 21, 2008
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