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| 1937-1974 1975-1990 1991-Present | |||||||||
| 1975 | Designs Glyndebourne Festival Opera production sets and costumes for The | ||||||||
| Rake's Progress. | |||||||||
| 1976 | Returns to Los Angeles. Begins working extensively with photography makes large | ||||||||
| scale lithographs. | |||||||||
| 1976/77 | Reads The Man with the Blue Guitar, by Wallace Stevens and makes a suite of | ||||||||
| twenty etchings to illustrate this theme. | |||||||||
| 1977/78 | Designs Glyndebourne Festival Opera production sets and costumes for The Magic Flute. | ||||||||
| 1978 | Makes Los Angeles his permanent residence. Makes lithographs and series Paper | ||||||||
| Pools, made with handmade paper pulp at Tyler Graphics in Bedford Village, New York. | |||||||||
| 1980/81 | Designs Metropolitan Opera ‘Triple Bill’, sets and costumes for Parade, Les | ||||||||
| Mamelles de Tiresias, l'Enfant et les Sortileges. | |||||||||
| 1981 | Travels to China with Sir Stephen Spender & Gregory Evans, May-June. Designs | ||||||||
| Metropolitan Opera sets and costumes for Le Sacre du Printemps, Le Rossignol, Oedipus Rex, and Paid on Both Sides. | |||||||||
| 1982/84 | Makes first composite Polaroids and photographic collages. | ||||||||
| 1983 | Begins to study Chinese scrolls and reads George Rowley’s Principals of Chinese | ||||||||
| Paintings designs sets for the ballet, Varii Capricci. | |||||||||
| 1984/85 | Makes “Moving Focus” multi-colored lithographs at Tyler Graphics in Bedford | ||||||||
| Village, New York. | |||||||||
| 1985 | Designs cover and forty pages for the December 1985 issue of French Vogue | ||||||||
| magazine. | |||||||||
| 1986 | First home made prints created on photocopiers. Designs and publishes a | ||||||||
| catalogue of home made prints to accompany his gallery exhibitions. Completes Pearblossom Hwy., 11-14th April 1986 photocollage which is the culmination of his experiments with photography. | |||||||||
| 1986/87 | Designs the Los Angeles Music Center Opera's production of Tristan und Isolde . Designs catalogue to accompany drawing exhibition at Loyola Marymount University, L.A. | ||||||||
| 1987/88 | Writes, directs and is featured in the film A Day on the Grand Canal with the | ||||||||
| Emperor of China or Surface is Illusion But So is Depth, produced by Philip Haas. | |||||||||
| 1988 | Creates twenty-four original pages for his book, David Hockney: A Retrospective. | ||||||||
| Creates original prints for local, national, and international publications in connection with his major retrospective. | |||||||||
| 1988/89 | Returns to painting, concentrating on seascapes, potted flowers, and portraits of | ||||||||
| his family and friends. | |||||||||
| 1989/90 | Makes drawings and transmits them through his AT&T and Canon laser fax | ||||||||
| machines. Makes multi-page fax pictures (up to 144 pages) utilizing his black & white laser office copy machine. | |||||||||
| 1990 | Works at Tyler Graphics Ltd. on six new prints. Makes color laser printed photographs from his vacation snaps of Alaska and England. Begins a series of oil paintings of the Santa Monica mountains. Experiments with a still video camera taking full length portrait pictures of friends and family. Designs sets and costumes of Puccini's Turandot with Ian Falconer , for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera. (performances scheduled for January 1992 and October 1993). | ||||||||
| 1937-1974 1975-1990 1991-Present | |||||||||
