David Hockney

David Hockney, the English artist whose deftly designed and suavely colored paintings turned trans-Atlantic attention to figurative and narrative art beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s after decades in which abstraction had dominated, died in June 2026 at his home in London. He was 88. Hockney lived for many years in Los Angeles. Hockney was born into a working-class family in the small industrial city of Bradford, Yorkshire, on July 9, 1937. He was survived by his partner, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, and his brothers Philip and John.