Yosemite No. 17, 2010

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Yosemite No. 17 is an iPad drawing by David Hockney from the artist’s Yosemite Suite. The composition presents a stylised Yosemite landscape, where three colourful cars are positioned before a vast sandy foreground, calm blue water, and distant mountainous forms beneath a layered sky. Hockney uses simplified shapes, bold colour contrasts, and expressive digital brushwork to create depth and atmosphere across the scene, while the inclusion of vehicles introduces scale and a sense of human presence within the expansive landscape. The work reflects Hockney’s continued exploration of observation, perspective, and the expressive possibilities of digital drawing.

Created entirely on iPad, the Yosemite Suite marked an important development in Hockney’s digital practice, combining traditional landscape observation with contemporary technology. Produced during the artist’s engagement with Yosemite National Park, the series captures changing light, texture, and spatial relationships with immediacy and precision. The Yosemite works are now regarded among the most significant digital landscapes within Hockney’s wider body of prints and editions, reinforcing Hockney’s influence on the evolution of contemporary digital landscape art.

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