sir howard hodgkin
early life and education sir gordon howard eliot hodgkin ch cbe, a renowned british painter and printmaker, was born on august 6, 1932, in hammersmith, london. his father, eliot hodgkin, was a manager for the chemical company ici and an amateur horticulturist. hodgkin's maternal grandfather, gordon hewart, was a journalist, lawyer, mp, and lord chief justice. artistic career hodgkin's first solo show was in london in 1962. he represented britain at the venice biennale in 1984 and won the turner prize in 1985. in 1992, he was knighted for his services to art. hodgkin designed a mural for the b…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of sir howard hodgkin's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.