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Howard Eliot Hodgkin

 (1932 - 2017)
Howard Eliot Hodgkin was active/lived in New York / United Kingdom.  Howard Hodgkin is known for abstract painting and printmaking.

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Howard Eliot Hodgkin

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"Howard Hodgkin, Whose Paintings Were Coded With Emotion, Dies at 84"
By William Grimes, March 9, 2017, Obituary, The New York Times

Howard Hodgkin, a British artist whose lush, semi-abstract paintings, aquiver with implicit drama, established him as one of the most admired artists of the postwar period, died on Thursday in London. He was 84.

The Tate Galleries announced his death but did not specify a cause.

Mr. Hodgkin was a relative latecomer to fame. A slow, methodical worker who could spend years building up a painting’s surface, he did not have a solo show until he was 30, and for years thereafter toiled against the grain, his work at odds with prevailing fashion.

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About  Howard Eliot Hodgkin

Born:  1932 - Purley, Berkshire, England
Died:   2017 - London, England
Known for:  abstract painting and printmaking