David Hockney is one of the world’s most famous living artists — pioneer of gay identity, icon of swinging ‘60s London, chronicler of people and places in his adopted city of Los Angeles, scholar of Picasso— and the subject of countless retrospectives. However, a show at the Palm Springs Art Museum addresses all of that and more with the revealing title David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.
Comprised entirely of prints ranging from the traditional lithography Hockney began in the 1950s to his current mastery of the iPhone and iPad, the 160 works are from the singular Jordan Schnitzer. The Portland, Oregon collector, owning more than 20,000 pieces of modern and contemporary art, has devoted himself to acquiring complete sets of editioned works by contemporary legends like Jasper Johns, Ellworth Kelly, John Baldessari and others. He says, “Once I bought that first work of art, it just never stopped. Now I have no sense of ownership but a great sense of stewardship.” The Schnitzer Foundation regularly funds and supports exhibitions of their prints.
