Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH, CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (born 6 August 1932) is a British

United Kingdom

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 painter

Painting

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 and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction

Abstract art

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.
Hodgkin, a cousin of the English still life

Still life

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 painter Eliot Hodgkin

Eliot Hodgkin

Eliot Hodgkin was an English painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire.Although he began with oil painting, most of his finest works were in tempera, specializing in highly detailed still lifes....

 (1905–87), was educated at Bryanston School

Bryanston School

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 in Dorset

Dorset

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. He then studied at the Camberwell Art School

Camberwell College of Arts

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 and later at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham

Corsham

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, where Edward Piper

Edward Piper

Edward Blake Christmas Piper was an English painter.Edward Piper was the eldest son of the artist John Piper and his wife Myfanwy. He was educated at Lancing College and later studied under Howard Hodgkin at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham and later at the Slade School in London.He produced...

 studied drawing under him.
Hodgkin's first solo show was in London

London

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 in 1962.