Artist Monograph

Howard Hodgkin, British

British, 1932–2017

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Tempera	10	50%
Lithography	3	15%
Oil Painting	2	10%
Gouache	2	10%
Watercolor	1	5%
Etching	1	5%
Screenprint	1	5%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	17	85%
Painting & Sculpture	2	10%
Architecture & Design	1	5%

Production by Decade

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Classification Types

Illustrated Book — 9
Print — 8
Painting — 2
Design — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	1	5.3%
Medium (30–100 cm)	14	73.7%
Large (1–3 m)	4	21.1%

Range: 28.0 cm → 151.1 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1977	1
1980	1
1981	2
1983	1
1985	1
1987	1
1989	1
1991	9
2015	1
2016	1
2019	1

British Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 20 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Julian and Alexis Print Acc. 438.1977	1977	Lithograph with hand additions	Sheet and comp. 27 5/8 x 40 3/8" (70.3 x 102.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Lydia K. and Harry L. Winston Fund
Nick Print Acc. 469.1986	1977	Etching and aquatint, with watercolor additions	plate: 17 5/8 x 22 1/8" (44.7 x 56.2 cm); sheet: 18 1/8 x 23" (46 x 58.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art in honor of Mrs. Alfred R. Stern
Red Bermudas Painting Acc. 420.1981	1978-80	Oil on wood	27 3/4 x 27 3/4" (70.5 x 70.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Lansing
For Bernard Jacobson Print Acc. 331.1980.a-b	1979	Lithograph on two sheets, with hand additions in tempera and crayon	Comp and sheet: 41 3/4 x 59 1/2" (106.0 x 151.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
In the Museum of Modern Art Print Acc. 458.1988.1-4	1979	Four etchings, two with hand additions	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Schimmel in honor of Riva Castleman
After Lunch Print Acc. 159.1981	1980	Etching and aquatint with gouache additions	composition (irreg.): 22 7/16 × 30 1/16" (57 × 76.3 cm); sheet: 22 7/16 × 30 1/16" (57 × 76.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Two To Go Print Acc. 222.1983	1981	Lithograph with gouache additions	composition and sheet: 36 1/8 × 48 1/4" (91.8 × 122.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics Design Acc. 200.2016.9	1983	Lithograph	36 × 24" (91.4 × 61 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Architecture & Design	Gift of Krešimir Penović
Welcome Print Acc. 148.1985	1983	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 33 7/16 × 24 7/16" (85 × 62 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Eliza Parkinson Cobb Fund
As You'd Been Wont – Wantonly/Wantonly/Eros Past from The Way We Live Now Illustrated Book Acc. 134.1991.B	1990-1991	Aquatint, with tempera additions	composition: 11 5/8 x 16 15/16" (29.5 x 43 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
AS YOU'D BEEN WONT – WANTONLY/WANTONLY/EROS PAST, plate 2 (double page plate between pages 16 and 17) from THE WAY WE LIVE NOW Illustrated Book Acc. 134.1991.A3	1990-1991	Lift ground aquatint, printed in color with tempera additions	composition 11 1/4 x 16 1/2" (28.5 x 42 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
BUT HE DID STOP SMOKING/HE DIDN'T MISS CIGARETTES AT ALL, plate 4 (four-page fold-out plate between pages 32 and 33) from THE WAY WE LIVE NOW Illustrated Book Acc. 134.1991.A5	1990-1991	Lift ground aquatint, printed in color with tempera additions	composition 11 3/16 x 33 1/16" (28.4 x 84 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
Dust jacket from THE WAY WE LIVE NOW Illustrated Book Acc. 134.1991.A7	1990-1991	Tempera	irreg composition 6 1/2 x 35 1/4" (16.5 x 89.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
FEAR GIVES EVERYTHING ITS HUE, ITS HIGH, back endpaper (double page plate prior to back flyleaf; variant of front endpaper) from THE WAY WE LIVE NOW Illustrated Book Acc. 134.1991.A6	1990-1991	Lift ground aquatint, printed in color with tempera additions	composition 11 1/4 x 16 5/8" (28.5 x 42.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
FEAR GIVES EVERYTHING ITS HUE, ITS HIGH, front endpaper (double page plate between front flyleaf and page 1) from THE WAY WE LIVE NOW Illustrated Book Acc. 134.1991.A1	1990-1991	Lift ground aquatint, printed in color with tempera additions	irreg. composition 11 1/4 x 16 5/8" (28.5 x 42.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
IN TOUCH/CHECKING IN, plate 1 (double page plate between pages 8 and 9) from THE WAY WE LIVE NOW Illustrated Book Acc. 134.1991.A2	1990-1991	Lift ground aquatint, printed in color with tempera additions	irreg. composition 11 1/4 x 16" (28.5 x 40.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
THE HOSPITAL ROOM WAS CHOKED WITH FLOWERS/EVERYBODY LIKES FLOWERS/SURPLUS FLOWERS/THE ROOM…WAS FILLING UP WITH FLOWERS, plate 3 (three-page fold-out plate between pages 24 and 25) from THE WAY WE LIVE NOW Illustrated Book Acc. 134.1991.A4	1990-1991	Lift ground aquatint, printed in color with tempera additions	composition 11 1/4 x 24 13/16" (28.5 x 63 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints
The Way We Live Now Illustrated Book Acc. 134.1991.A-B	1990, published 1991	Illustrated book with 7 aquatints and 1 tempera (dust jacket)	page (each): 11 × 8 3/8" (28 × 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchased in part with funds from Mrs. Donald B. Straus
Spring Rain Painting Acc. 127.2019	2000-2002	Oil on wood	38 3/4 × 42" (98.4 × 106.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Bequest of James Duffy
Herb Garden from Alan Cristea Gallery Twentieth Anniversary Portfolio Print Acc. 705.2015.10	2015	Carborundum relief from a portfolio of three aquatints (one with carborundum relief), one carborundum relief, one chromogenic print, three digital prints, four etchings (two with chine collé, one with embossing), one linoleum cut, one lithograph, three screenprints, two woodcuts, and two polymer gravures (one with woodcut)	composition and sheet: 11 1/4 × 15 1/16" (28.5 × 38.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Alan Cristea Gallery, London, in honor of Alan Cristea