Yosemite No. 21, 2010: iPad print from David Hockney's Yosemite Suite

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Yosemite No. 21 is an iPad drawing by David Hockney from the artist’s Yosemite Suite. The composition presents a stylised view of Yosemite National Park, filled with expressive green slopes, abstracted foliage forms, and gestural yellow highlights beneath a narrow band of pale blue sky. Hockney uses energetic digital brushwork and layered tonal contrasts to create movement and depth throughout the landscape, while the simplified forms reinforce the rhythm and atmosphere of the natural setting. The work reflects Hockney’s continued exploration of perspective, colour, and the expressive possibilities of digital drawing.

Created entirely on iPad, the Yosemite Suite marked a significant development in Hockney’s digital practice, combining direct landscape observation with contemporary technology. Produced during the artist’s engagement with Yosemite National Park, the series captures changing light, texture, and spatial complexity with immediacy and precision. The Yosemite works are now regarded among the most important digital landscapes within Hockney’s wider body of prints and editions, demonstrating how digital media could expand the visual language of contemporary landscape art.

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