David Hockney Totem Revived **

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2023-24, Archival Coloured Pencil Drawing on Paper - 20.5" x 16.5" (52.1cm x 41.9cm)

In the early 2000's David Hockney created a number of landscape works in East Yorkshire UK that included a particular tree stump that he referred to as a 'totem'. Tragically, this tree stump was eventually vandalized and spitefully cut down (not by the property owner). This work re-imagines a new 'totem' from Nova Scotia, Canada that, perhaps, may be considered a worthy replacement.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/19/david-hockney-destruction-tree-stump