Title : Garrowby Hill

Artist : David Hockney (1998)

Size : 60 x 76 in

Medium : Oil on Canvas

Garrowby Hill is a painting by David Hockney depicting the same-named Yorkshire landmark from 1998. The picture is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' collection. In 1998, the painting was completed. Hockney had lived in Los Angeles for a period of years before returning to Yorkshire in the late 1990s. After returning to England, Hockney painted numerous landscape paintings of Yorkshire landscapes, including Garrowby Hill.

The artwork depicts the highest point in the Yorkshire Wolds, Bishop Wilton Wold, which gets its name from its vicinity to the settlement of Garrowby, near York. In 2010, a second print of the Garrowby Hill picture was developed, which is sometimes mistaken for the original from 1998. It was on display at Tate Britain in London during Hockney's 2017 retrospective.

Garrowby Hill, a rolling scene of magnificent immensity, exemplifies David Hockney's unique, multi-perspectival technique to painting. It's a stunning return to one of his most recognised subjects: the ever-changing landscape of East Yorkshire. Garrowby Hill is akin to the dramatic pool paintings of the 1960s, conversation pieces of the 1970s, and meandering California landscapes of the 1980s and 1990s in terms of iconicity. This painting also influenced the iconic Yorkshire landscapes of the 2000s, as well as Hockney's breathtaking Grand Canyon vistas. The fact that Hockney revisits this piece twenty years later demonstrates its importance.

"Garrowby Hill is painted in oil on canvas 193 cm wide, slightly larger than Constable's famous 'six footers'. Despite its size, its success instilled in Hockney a wish to make an even bigger picture, to emulate the great painters of the American Sublime, and to confront in paint the Grand Canyon, which he calls 'the biggest space you can look out over that has an edge."

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printer, photographer, and stage designer whose works are distinguished by economy of technique, a fascination with light, and a honest prosaic realism borrowed from Pop art and photography.