Born Bradford, 1937

Born 1937 in Bradford. Hockney studied at Bradford School of Art and the Royal Academy of Art. He rapidly acquired fame as a founding member of the British Pop Art movement. He subsequently earned the soubriquet as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century; his retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain in 2017 attracted 478,022 visitors, a record for a British artist.

Untitled No. 21 from The Yosemite Suite