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American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)

A painting of a light-skinned man in a suit and glasses standing in profile and a light-skinned woman with chin-length gray hair and wearing a full-length bright-pink robe stand in a courtyard with various sculptures. Between them is a large stone on a plinth, behind them a green abstracted seated figure, and off to the right a totem pole.
© David Hockney

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  • A painting of a light-skinned man in a suit and glasses standing in profile and a light-skinned woman with chin-length gray hair and wearing a full-length bright-pink robe stand in a courtyard with various sculptures. Between them is a large stone on a plinth, behind them a green abstracted seated figure, and off to the right a totem pole.

Date:

1968

Artist:

David Hockney
English, born 1937

About this artwork

One of the most versatile and inventive English artists of the postwar era, David Hockney settled in Los Angeles in 1964. An especially iconic example from a group of double portraits of friends and associates from the 196os, this painting depicts the contemporary-art collectors Fred and Marcia Weisman in the sculpture garden of their Los Angeles home. As stiff and still as the objects surrounding them, the couple stands apart, his stance echoed in the totem pole to the right, hers in the Henry Moore sculpture behind her. Brilliant light flattens the scene and sets the couple in sharp relief; they seem oblivious to each other as well as to their art.

Status

On View, Gallery 289

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

David Hockney

Title

American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1968

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

213.4 × 304.8 cm (83 7/8 × 120 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Frederic G. Pick

Reference Number

1984.182

Copyright

© David Hockney

Extended information about this artwork

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