Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker.
21 Facts About Howard Hodgkin
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Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1932 in Hammersmith, London, the son of Eliot Hodgkin, a manager for the chemical company ICI and an amateur horticulturist, and his wife Katherine, a botanical illustrator.
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Howard Hodgkin's maternal grandfather Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart was a journalist, lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lord Chief Justice; and the scientist Thomas Hodgkin was his great-great-grandfather's older brother.
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Howard Hodgkin was a cousin of the English still life painter Eliot Howard Hodgkin.
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Howard Hodgkin had decided on a career in art in early childhood and ran away from school to pursue this.
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Howard Hodgkin studied at the Camberwell Art School and later at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, where Edward Piper studied drawing under him.
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Memoirs, one of Howard Hodgkin's earliest recorded paintings, shows the artist, then aged 17, listening to a female figure reclining on a sofa.
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In 1980, Howard Hodgkin was invited by John Hoyland to exhibit work as part of the Hayward Annual at the Hayward Gallery along with Gillian Ayres, Basil Beattie, Terry Setch, Anthony Caro, Patrick Caulfield, Ben Nicholson and others.
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In 1981, Howard Hodgkin had collaborated with the Rambert Dance Company's Resident Choreographer, Richard Alston, for his abstract work 1981 for the production of Night Music and later for the production of Pulcinella in 1987.
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In 1984, Howard Hodgkin represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, in 1985 he won the Turner Prize, and in 1992 he was knighted.
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Howard Hodgkin was invited to design a mural for the front of Charles Correa's 1992 headquarters for the British Council in India.
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Howard Hodgkin's mural is of a banyan tree spreading its branches across the walls.
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Howard Hodgkin first suggested that I think about the mural as an Indian flag turning into a Union Jack.
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In 1995, Howard Hodgkin printed the Venetian Views series, which depict the same view of Venice at four different times of day.
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Howard Hodgkin's prints were hand-painted etchings and he worked with the master printer Jack Shirreff at 107 Workshop.
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Howard Hodgkin was appointed a CBE in 1977, and he was knighted in 1992.
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Howard Hodgkin received an honorary fellowship from the London Institute in 1999.
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Howard Hodgkin was made a Companion of Honour in the 2003 New Year Honours for his services to art.
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In 1955, Howard Hodgkin married Julia Lane, by whom he had two children.
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Howard Hodgkin knew he was gay, even when he was married, and later left his wife.
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On 9 March 2017, Howard Hodgkin died at the age of 84 in a hospital in London.