Lithograph on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-hockney-1293" aria-label="More by David Hockney" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">David Hockney</a>
Pacific Mutual Life
Presented by Jonathan Cheshire and Gareth Marshallsea in memory of Peter Coni 1994
abstraction
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
clock
countries and continents
from recognisable sources
garden
garden structures
landscape
Los Angeles, Pershing Square, Pacific Mutual Life Building
objects
offices
palm
places
public and municipal
scientific and measuring
signage
square
tower block
townscapes / man-made features
USA
<p>In 1964 Hockney returned to lithography after a gap of ten years. This lithograph is inscribed with the title and the words 'PERSHING SQUARE'. Depicting an insurance office building in downtown Los Angeles, it is related to the painting <em>Building, Pershing Square, Los Angeles</em> of the same year (private collection), one of the first Hockney made in California. When Hockney first arrived in the city, he cycled from Santa Monica, on the ocean, to Pershing Square, downtown, not realising the distance was eighteen miles. He was attracted to the Pershing Square area as the setting of John Rechy's homosexual novel <em>City of Night</em> (1963), which provided much of the sexual imagery from which the artist formed his first impressions of Los Angeles.<strong>Further reading:</strong>Nikos Stangos (ed.), <em>David Hockney by David Hockney</em>, London 1976, pp.14, 97, reproduced p.112Marco Livingstone, <em>David Hockney: Etchings and Lithographs</em>, exhibition catalogue, Waddington Graphics, London 1988, [p.9], reproduced pl.6Terry RiggsNovember 1997</p>
paper print lithograph
14 November 2009 – 24 January 2010
2010-01-24
14 November 2009 – 24 January 2010
2010-01-24
2009-11-14
Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, UK)
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/
2009-11-14
David Hockney, London and Los Angeles 1960 - 1968
Loan-out
21 March 2019 – 28 May 2023
2023-05-28
21 March 2019 – 4 August 2019
2019-08-04
2019-03-21
Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
http://seoulmoa.org/html/eng/menu01/contents05.jsp
1 September 2019 – 1 January 2020
2020-01-01
2019-09-01
M Woods Museum (Beijing, China)
1 February 2020 – 13 September 2020
2020-09-13
2020-02-01
Bucerius Kunst Forum (Hamburg, Germany)
http://www.buceriuskunstforum.de
18 October 2021 – 23 January 2022
2022-01-23
2021-10-18
Centre for Fine Arts - BOZAR (Brussels, Belgium)
10 February 2022 – 19 June 2022
2022-06-19
2022-02-10
Kunstforum Wien (Vienna, Austria)
http://www.kunstforum-wien.at
8 July 2022 – 30 October 2022
2022-10-30
2022-07-08
Kunstmuseum (Luzern, Switzerland)
http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
28 January 2023 – 28 May 2023
2023-05-28
2023-01-28
Musée Granet (Aix-en-Provence, France)
Palazzo Reale (Milan, Italy)
2019-03-21
David Hockney
Tate partnerships & programmes
Pacific Mutual Life
image: 512 × 640 mm
Presented by Jonathan Cheshire and Gareth Marshallsea in memory of Peter Coni 1994
<p>In 1964 Hockney returned to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithography</span></a> after a gap of ten years. This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithograph</span></a> is
inscribed with the title and the words 'PERSHING SQUARE'. Depicting an insurance office building in downtown Los Angeles, it is related to the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> <em>Building, Pershing Square, Los Angeles</em> of the same year (private collection), one of the
first Hockney made in California. When Hockney first arrived in the city, he cycled from Santa Monica, on the ocean, to Pershing Square, downtown, not realising the distance was eighteen miles. He was attracted to the Pershing Square area as the setting
of John Rechy's homosexual novel <em>City of Night</em> (1963), which provided much of the sexual imagery from which the artist formed his first impressions of Los Angeles.</p><p><strong>Further reading:</strong><br/>Nikos Stangos (ed.), <em>David Hockney
by David Hockney</em>, London 1976, pp.14, 97, reproduced p.112Marco Livingstone, <em>David Hockney: Etchings and Lithographs</em>, exhibition catalogue, Waddington Graphics, London 1988, [p.9], reproduced pl.6</p><p>Terry Riggs<br/>November 1997<!-- end
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Summary
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SHORT_TEXT
abstraction architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) clock countries and continents from recognisable sources garden garden structures landscape Los Angeles, Pershing Square, Pacific Mutual Life Building objects offices palm places public and municipal scientific and measuring signage square tower block townscapes / man-made features USA