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Gallery Tour with Co-Curators Lisa Tamiris Becker and Catherine Labio

September 7, 2012 | 1:00pm — 2:00pm

Special gallery tours will be given of the CU Art Museum's Hockney and Hogarth: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of British Art exhibition. All tours are scheduled on Fridays and start at 1 pm, lasting 45 minutes maximum

Featuring Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director of the CU Art Museum and Catherine Labio, Associate Professor of English, co-curators of the exhibition

The exhibition Hockney and Hogarth: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Collection of British Art builds on the remarkable strengths of the CU Art Museum’s collection of British art and features David Hockney’s first major print series, A Rake’s Progress (1961-63), alongside the 1735 series by William Hogarth that inspired it.

A large selection of additional works from the 119 William Hogarth engravings included in the CU Art Museum’s permanent collection are also on view, such as the complete Marriage A-la-Mode and The Four Times of Day series, selections from the Industry and Idleness and The Four Stages of Cruelty series, the plates created for Hogarth’s aesthetic treatise The Analysis of Beauty, as well as numerous individual prints. Also on view are published Hogarth works from the Special Collections Department, Norlin Library, University Libraries as well as a video of the 1975 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, with stage and costume designs by David Hockney, allowing audiences to experience a major performance inspired by the similarly titled Hogarth and Hockney print series.
William Hogarth, British (b.1697 – 1764)[+]
A Rake’s Progress (Plate VIII) from the portfolio “A Rake’s Progress” (detail)
1822/1735
engraving
25 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches

Purchase with The Carnegie Fund, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder 2012.01.02.08 Photo by Jeff Wells © CU Art Museum.