Wind
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. The Weather Series was the second major suite made at Gemini and in part is inspired by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. Here, four pieces of paper blown about by wind, reveal themselves to be four of the images from The Weather Series - in ascending order: rain, sun, snow and mist. The solid geometry of the road sign for Melrose Avenue (in which Gemini's studio is located), at the bottom of the image, serves to emphasise the nature of wind by providing a visual contrast.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph and screenprint on paper |
| Brief description | David Hockney 'Wind' from the suite of 6 plates entitled 'The Weather Series' 1973 |
| Physical description | image of fours sheets of paper with images of hockney's Rain, Sun Snow and Mist being blown about - this is suggested by their irregular and twisted arrangement in the picture plane and curved blue lines of the kind used by illustrators to suggest movement. All against a watery green ground |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 50/98 |
| Marks and inscriptions | David Hockney 73/ Wind / 50/98 (Signed and dated in red crayon, inscribed with title in green crayon and numbered in red 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 in part is inspired by the representation of weather in Japanese prints. Here, four pieces of paper blown about by wind, reveal themselves to be four of the images from The Weather Series - in ascending order: rain, sun, snow and mist. The solid geometry of the road sign for Melrose Avenue (in which Gemini's studio is located), at the bottom of the image, serves to emphasise the nature of wind by providing a visual contrast. |
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| Other number | N.141 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.61-1975 |
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| Record created | March 21, 2008 |
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