A Yorkshire Sketchbook: David Hockney

David Hockney returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Executed in watercolor and ink, this title features panoramic scenes that have the spatial complexity of finished paintings - the broad sweep of sky or road, the patchwork tapestry of land - yet convey the immediacy of the author's impressions.

In recent years David Hockney has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood. East Yorkshire's stern hillscapes, craggy drystone walls and en...