Y, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Large Format Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 -

Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 - 2011

A skier carrying his boots in New Hampshire

a recurring motif in Dalí's oeuvre

that also started informing my painting and vice versa

Y, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Large Format Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 -David Hockney's letter Y comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A Y is reserved in green from a solid yellow rectangle set on a field of dark dashes a crisp, poster like play of figure and ground in which the letter is the gap rather than the mark. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in 1991 to raise funds for