Sir howard hodgkin biography
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Sir howard hodgkin biography
Howard Hodgkin
British painter and printmaker (1932–2017)
Sir Gordon Howard Eliott HodgkinCH CBE (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker.
His work is most often associated with abstraction.
Early life
See also: Hodgkin family
Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1932[1] in Hammersmith, London, the son of Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1973), a manager for the chemical company ICI and an amateur horticulturist, and his wife Katherine, a botanical illustrator.[2][3] During the Second World War, Eliot Hodgkin was an RAF officer, rising to Wing Commander, and was assistant to Sefton Delmer in running his black propaganda campaign against Nazi Germany.[4]
His maternal grandfather Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart was a journalist, lawyer, Member of Parliament (MP) and Lord Chief Justice; and the scientist Thomas Hodgkin was his great-great-grandfather's older brother.[5] Hodgkin was a cousi