national service delays DH’s arrival
DH starts his course (September 1959)
described
hostility of some staff 3.1, 4.1
Christmas Revue 3.1, 4.1
film club
visitors to the painting studios
DH’s achievements while at RCA 4.1, 4.2
general studies course 4.1, 4.2
DH awarded gold medal 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
Fashion Design School
etching studio
turns Schlesinger down
print department
Royal College of Music, London
Royal Court Theatre, London 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1
Ossie Clark’s fashion show
Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu (Pink Palace)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 5.1, 10.1, 13.1
Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street, London: “Young Contemporaries” exhibitions 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1
Rudenko, Tony
Ruscha, Ed 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1
Ruskin College, Oxford
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, John 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
Russell, Ken
Russia, Kenneth Hockney’s view of
Rye, East Sussex
St. Andrew’s Villas, Princeville, Bradford 1.1, 1.2
St. Austell, Cornwall
St. Clair, John
St. Francis Hotel, Union Square, San Francisco
St. George’s Gallery, Cork Street, London: The Graven Image exhibition 4.1
St. George’s Hall, Bradford 1.1, 2.1
St. Helen’s Hospital, Hastings 3.1, 3.2
St. Ives, Cornwall 3.1, 3.2
St. John’s Market, Bradford
St. Laurent, Yves
St. Luke’s Hospital, Bradford 3.1, 3.2, 11.1
St. Margaret’s Road, Bradford
St. Martin’s School of Art (later merged with Central School of Art and Design), London
St. Petersburg Place, London
St. Saba, Church of, Alexandria
St. Thomas’s Hospital, London
Salford Art School
Salt, Sir Titus
Saltaire, West Yorkshire 1.1, 8.1
Salvation Army 1.1, 5.1
San Fernando Valley, California 7.1, 7.2
San Francisco 6.1, 6.2
“Summer of Love” 8.1, 11.1
San Francisco Chronicle
“San Francisco” (song)
Santa Cruz, California 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Santa Monica, California 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1
Santa Monica Mountains 6.1, 7.1
Satie, Erik: “La Belle Excentrique”
Savoy Hotel, London
Scarning, Norfolk
Schlesinger, Peter 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1
family background
studies at University of California, Santa Cruz 7.1, 8.1
meets DH at UCLA
appearance
personality 7.1, 9.1
relationship with DH 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
DH’s first paintings featuring him
transfers to UCLA
parents send him to a psychiatrist
trip to Europe
rejected by RCA but accepted by the Slade
photographer 8.1, 9.1
at the Slade 8.1, 8.2
DH’s interest in his painting
and DH’s sitters
and Richardson’s house parties
lack of a double portrait with DH
meets DH’s parents
friendship with Birtwell 9.1, 9.2
Christmas on his own
DH’s drawings 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
in Vichy 9.1, 9.2
longs for his own identity
love of Paris
at Odin’s 10.1, 10.2
in Marrakesh
affair with Boman 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
poses for photographs for DH
friendship with Gregory Evans
in A Bigger Splash
Schwab’s Coffee House, Los Angeles
Scotch of St. James’s nightclub, London
Scott, Christopher 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Scott, James
Scott’s Club, London
Secombe, Harry
Second World War
declaration of war on Germany
Kenneth’s conscientious objection
Hockney family evacuated
Bradford bombed (31 August 1940) 1.1, 1.2
Battle of Britain
Hockney family moves
war ends
Jarman on
Secunda, Chelita
Self, Colin 6.1, 6.2
Sellers, Peter 2.1, 2.2
Sévigné, Marquise de
Sewell, Brian
Sexual Offences Act (1967) 7.1, 8.1
Shapiro, David
Shell 4.1, 5.1
Shepherd, Jack
Shipley, West Yorkshire 1.1, 7.1
Shipley Glen, West Yorkshire 1.1, 1.2
Sibelius, Jean
Sibylla’s Club, London
Sickert, Walter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Silverman, Sidney
Simon, Meyer
Slabczynski, Stefan
Slade School of Fine Art, Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Sleep, Wayne 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Smith, Dick 2.1, 8.1
Smith, Jack
Smith, Richard 3.1, 5.1
Smith, Rodney “Gipsy” 1.1, 1.2
Snowdon, Lord (Anthony Armstrong-Jones) 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1
social realism 2.1, 5.1, 8.1
Söderström, Elisabeth
Soho, London 4.1, 4.2, 13.1
Some Like It Hot (film)
Southampton 4.1, 6.1
Soviet Weekly
Spalding, Mr. (Director of Education, Bradford)
Spanish Civil War 1.1, 9.1
Spear, Ruskin 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2
Spectator 5.1, 9.1, 13.1
Spence, Sir Basil
Spencer, Sir Stanley 2.1, 2.2
Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta
Spender, Humphrey
Spender, Stephen 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 13.1
Spoleto international festival, Italy
Spring Bridge, Bradford
Stable Gallery, East 74th Street, New York
Stafford, Derek
education 2.1, 2.2
war service
tutor at Bradford Regional College of Art 2.1, 2.2
falls out with the Principal
on DH’s behaviour in classes
encourages his students to go on London trips
and importance of evolution at work 2.1, 2.2
parties at his new studio 2.1, 2.2
encourages DH
on DH’s paintings 2.1, 2.2
teaches students to be committed to their work
Stalin, Joseph
Stanford University
Stangos, Nikos 7.1, 10.1
Stanhope Hotel, Fifth Avenue, New York
Stanton, Larry
Starr, Ringo 6.1, 13.1
Steadman Terrace, Bradford (No. 61) 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Steele, Tommy
Stella, Frank 5.1, 6.1, 8.1
Stephenson Brothers 1.1, 1.2
Sternberg, Josef von
Stevens, Norman 2.1, 3.1
friendship with DH
his disability
in the Tate Gallery
skiffle group
Royal College of Art application 2.1, 2.2
visits Hastings while at Royal College
DH lodges with him in Earls Court
Yorkshire accent
warns Berg about DH
graduates
works at Maidstone School of Art
visits DH in US 6.1, 6.2
Stevenson, Harold
Stewart, Rod 4.1,
13.1
Still, Clyfford 4.1, 8.1
Stott Hill, Bradford
Strachey, Lytton
Strand Hotel, Rangoon
Strand Palace Hotel, London
Strauss, Richard: Intermezzo 13.1, 13.2
Stravinsky, Igor: The Rake’s Progress 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Strong, Dr. Roy 7.1, 9.1
Studio magazine
Studio International
Suffolk 3.1, 3.2
sugar lift
Sunday Mirror
Sunday Telegraph
Sunday Times 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 9.1
Atticus column
Sunday Times Magazine 5.1, 5.2
Superman (film serial)
Sutton, Keith
Sutton, Philip
Swan Arcade, Bradford
Sykes Wardrobes, Bradford
Sylvester, David 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
Taplin, Denis
Tate Gallery, London 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 13.1
Picasso exhibition (1960)
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Rod 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Teenage Nudist magazine
Theatre of the Absurd
Thewliss, Mrs.
Thewliss, Reverend
Thompson, Charles (DH’s maternal grandfather) 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Thompson, John
Thompson, Mary (née Sugden; DH’s maternal grandmother) 1.1, 2.1
Thompson, Rebecca (Aunt Rebe; DH’s aunt)
Thompson, Robert (DH’s maternal great-grandfather)
Thomson, Roy 5.1, 5.2
Thurston, Barbara
Tidman, Bruer
Tilbury Docks, London
Time magazine 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Times, The 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Times Educational Supplement
Tinguely, Jean
Meta-Matics
Tokyo
Tolson’s of Bradford
Torino’s, Soho, London
Town magazine
Trevelyan, Julian 4.1, 5.1
Trials of Oscar Wilde, The
Trident Preview Theatre, St. Anne’s Court, London
Trinity College, Dublin
Troubador pub, Old Brompton Road, London
Trust Houses Ltd
Tulane University, New Orleans
Tumble Inn Motel, Santa Monica 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
Turnbull, William 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Turner, Alan
Turner, J.M.W. itr.1, 2.1
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Twiggy
Twombly, Cy
Tyler, Ken 6.1, 11.1, 11.2
Typhoo tea 3.1, 3.2
Uccello, Paolo: The Hunt in the Forest
Uffizi, Florence
Under Milk Wood (Thomas)
United States
Jarman on post-war America
DH visits (1961)
DH’s love of America
DH leaves London for New York (30 December 1963)
DH’s first American show
DH teaches at UCLA
DH’s road trip with Kasmin and Schlesinger
Supreme Court rulings
recession
DH prefers to work on The Rake’s Progress in
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 8.1, 8.2
DH teaches 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
DH meets Schlesinger
Schlesinger transfers to
University of California, Santa Cruz 7.1, 8.1
University of Colorado at Boulder 6.1, 6.2
University of Iowa 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Upton, Anne
Upton, Michael 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2
Utah
Uzès, near Nîmes, France 8.1, 12.1
van Gogh, Vincent 2.1, 4.1
Vaughan, Keith 2.1, 3.1, 9.1
Vega restaurant, off Leicester Square, London 4.1, 5.1
Velázquez, Diego
Velvet Underground, the
Venice, California 6.1, 6.2
Venice Biennale, Italy 2.1, 9.1
Viareggio, Italy 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
Vichy, France 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 12.1
Victoria Road, Bradford
Vidal, Alexis
Viehmann, Katarina Dorothea
Vietnam War
anti-war meetings
Villa Nellcôte, Nice
Villa Reale, Lucca
Visconti, Luchino
Vogue 8.1, 9.1
American
von Bülow, Claus
Vorticism
Vreeland, Diana
Wagner, Richard
“Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde
Lohengrin
Die Meistersinger
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Wakefield City Art Gallery: Alan Davie retrospective (1958)
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 5.1, 8.1
Walker Galleries, 118 New Bond Street, London
Wall, Max 7.1, 7.2
Wallis, Neville
Ward, Eleanor
Ward, James
Warhol, Andy 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 10.1, 13.1
first solo exhibition
first exhibition of the Soup Cans
Birtwell on
Mao portraits
Mona Lisa paintings
Warwick, Mrs. Wally
Warwick, Wally
Waterloo Station, London
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited
Webb, Peter: Portrait of David Hockney
Webster, Sir David 10.1, 10.2
Weight, Carel 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2
Weimar Republic
Weisman, Fred
Weisman, Marcia
Welles, Orson
Wellington Road Primary School, Bradford 1.1, 1.2
West Riding
West Side Story (musical)
Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, London
Western Electric Sound System
Westminster School, London
White Star Line
Whitechapel Gallery, London 5.1, 9.1
This Is Tomorrow exhibition (1956) 4.1, 9.1
Jackson Pollock exhibition (1958)
DH’s retrospective (1970) 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Whitehead, Mr. (art teacher) 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Whiteley, Brett
Whitman, Walt 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 12.1
“I Hear It Was Charged Against Me”
“So Long!”
“We Two Boys Together Clinging”
“When I Heard at the Close of Day”
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester: DH’s mini retrospective (1969)
Wigmore Place, London
Wilde, Oscar 8.1, 8.2
Wilder, Nick 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Williams, Francis
Williams, Kyffin
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, Harold (Baron Wilson of Rievaulx)
Wilton’s restaurant, Jermyn Street, London 4.1, 4.2
Wishnick, Robert I.
Withernsea, East Yorkshire
Wolfenden, Sir John
Wolfenden Committee
Woodcock, Dr. Patrick
Woodfall Films
Woodward, Bernard
Wool Exchange, Bradford
Woolf, James
Woolner, Thomas
Woolworths 1.1, 3.1
Wordsworth, William
Wright, John
Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Greater Manchester
Wyndham, Violet
Wyoming Building, Seventh Avenue, New York
Yeovil College of Art, Somerset 2.1, 3.1
York
Yorke, Emma
Yorkshire Artists Exhibition 2.1, 3.1
Yorkshire Dales
Young Physique magazine
Zajac, Jack
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It was not easy to persuade Hockney to consent to be the subject of a new biography. “I’m not in the mood for reflection,” he told me. “I’ve got too much to look forward to.” But the prospect of a major new show at the Royal Academy in January 2012—not a retrospective, but an exhibition of new work, bringing with it many requests for such a book—eventually persuaded him that this was a subject that was not going to go away, and he agreed to let me do it. The rules were simple. He would talk to me in his time, not mine, and would authorise the book, but not endorse it.
My aim in writing this book has not been to add to the hundreds of thousands of words already written about Hockney’s work, but to conjure up the man that he is and in doing so to put his paintings and drawings in the context of his extraordinary life. Though it was not originally intended to be in two volumes, the richness of the available material eventually necessitated it. Since I could not have started out on this project without his agreement, my first thank you is to David Hockney himself for giving me such a wonderful opportunity. I pray that I will not let him down.
Next I have the Hockney siblings to thank for their cooperation, for allowing me to read and use extracts from their mother’s diaries, and for all the memories they have shared with me. So thank you to Paul Hockney, Philip Hockney, Margaret Hockney and John Hockney.
In all my visits to Bridlington, I have received help and sustenance from all the Hockney household, in particular delicious lunches and dinners cooked by John Fitzherbert, advice and beautiful accordion playing from Jean-Pierre Goncalves de Lima, technical help and a superb Wagner soundtrack from Jonathan Wilkinson, and many cups of tea perfectly made by Dominic Elliott. Thank you all. A special thanks must also go to those who were such a great help to me in California, where Hockney has lived for so many years and where his archives are kept, in particular, Gregory Evans, Richard Schmidt and George Snyder.
My agent, Ed Victor, had faith in my idea from the start, and was ably supported by Maggie Phillips. Thank you to Oliver Johnson at Century for buying it, to Jack Fogg and Caroline Gascoigne for editing it and to Briony Gowlett for working tirelessly gathering material for it. And without the cooperation of the following, who all helped in one way or another, either with reminiscences or with illustrations or with moral support, there would be no book. So thank you:
Don Bachardy * Mark Bell * Adrian Berg * Mark Berger * Murray Biggs * Benedict Birnberg * Celia Birtwell * Simon Blow * David Bolger * Eric Boman * Derek Boshier * Melvyn Bragg * Katherine Bucknell * David Cammell * Melissa Chassay * Tchaik Chassay * George Christie * Mary Christie * Paul Cornwall-Jones * John Cox * Richard Davenport-Hines * Johnny Dewe Matthews * Lindy Dufferin * Mike Duggleby * Aurora Dunluce * Mary Fedden * Chris Fletcher * Bella Freud * Cherry Glazebrook * Grey Gowrie * Ann Graves * David Graves * Allen Jones * Jane Kasmin * John Kasmin * Lem Kitaj * Arthur Lambert * Mark Lancaster * Jack Larson * George Lawson * Wendy Lindbergh * John Loker * Ian Massey * Roddy Maude-Roxby * John Naylor * Philip Naylor * David and Susan Neave * David Oxtoby * Neil Parkinson * Maurice Payne * David Pilling * Philip Powell * Geoff Reeve * John Richardson * Jacob Rothschild * Charlie Scheips * Peter Schlesinger * Graham Sherriff * Lizzie Spender * Derek Stafford * Nona Summers * Hugo Vickers * Jacqui Wald * Marinka Watts * Norma Williamson * Richard Wentworth * Bruno Wollheim
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