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Article: How East Yorkshire inspires Hockney.
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- Scarborough Evening News (Scarborough, England)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2007
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The UK debut of David Hockney's new paintings of the East Yorkshire landscape has been announced by Tate Britain.
David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape will mark the artist's 70th birthday in July and will include five large new paintings, each around 12ft long.
Hockney is also helping to curate a major show of JMW Turner watercolours, which will open in the same month as his own exhibition.
Hockney, from Bradford but now living in the Bridlington area, is famous for his Los Angeles paintings such as A Bigger Splash and A Lawn Being Sprinkled.
But he has become fully absorbed by the landscape of East Yorkshire in the last four ...