Howard Hodgkin (British, b. 1932)

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Hand-painted liftground etching with aquatint and carborundum
Gift of Russell B. Newton, Jr. and Joannie Newton
AG.2012.3.1

British artist Howard Hodgkin aspired to become an artist at a young age, especially after visiting the Museum of Modern Art in New York and seeing work by Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954), Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), and Stuart Davis (1892 – 1964). Much of his work references experiences in his own life. Hodgkin describes his work as “representational pictures of emotional experiences.” [2]