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The Grand Canyon

Paintings

A painting of the Grand Canyon almost identical to the view in the exhibition, but overall brighter in color. In addition, the shape of the dark pink section in the lower left (now orange in color) in more expansive and exaggerated.

David Hockney, A Bigger Grand Canyon, 1998, oil on 60 canvases, 81 ½ x 293 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. © David Hockney. Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt. Collection of National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

A painting of the Grand Canyon similar to the view in the exhibition, but with smaller yellow and vegetation sections, more crevices between sections, and a large rusty red front on the purple section on the right side.

David Hockney,
A Closer Grand Canyon, 1998, oil on 60 canvases, 81 1/2 x 293" overall, Collection Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, © David Hockney, Photo: Richard Schmidt

In addition to the painting in this exhibition, artist David Hockney created two other paintings of the Grand Canyon. He painted A Bigger Grand Canyon first, a similar view as this version but with different details. Hockney painted A Closer Grand Canyon last, which brings the viewer farther into the scene to the canyon’s edge.