David Hockney
Chair and Window at Clandeboye
1969
Scroll
David Hockney
Chair and Window at Clandeboye
1969
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink, Sheet: 430 x 352 mm. (16 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection
Object Number
1969.44.5
Hockney made a series of thirty-nine etchings to illustrate a group of Brothers Grimm fairy tales. This one, designed for “The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear,” communicates in spare terms the thrust of a story about leaving the security of a familiar place to explore an outside world. Here Hockney focuses on the space between indoors and outdoors, allowing the window to open the scene visually and thematically to an unknown place beyond the limits of the page and comforts of home.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1969; Mr. Edward Benesch, NY
Victor Carlson (organized and circulated by the BMA), "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings from The Baltimore Museum of Art." E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, November 3 - December 2, 1973; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, January 18 - February 17, 1974; The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2 - April 21, 1974, cat. 26.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
BMA, "Modern Master Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 February - 30 April 1989.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Landscape Drawings from the T.E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 8 May - 17 June, 1990.
BMA, "Making the Decades: Drawings 1960-1990," 5 February - 19 April, 1992.
BMA, "Select Views: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 21 May - 30 July 2006.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
BMA, "Modern Master Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 February - 30 April 1989.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Landscape Drawings from the T.E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 8 May - 17 June, 1990.
BMA, "Making the Decades: Drawings 1960-1990," 5 February - 19 April, 1992.
BMA, "Select Views: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 21 May - 30 July 2006.
"The Thomas Edward Benesch Memorial Collection," BMA, 1970, unpaginated.
Nikos Stangos, ed., "David Hockney by David Hockney" (NY: Abrams, 1977), p. 212.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 189, ill.
Inscribed: lower right in black ink: "Clandeboye. DH '69"
