Reviews

Geraldine Norman – The Independant – 17/03/1990

Exhibition: Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox – 14 March – 10 April 1990 – Eliot Hodgkin: Painter and Collector Article: A rare talent for common subjects by Geraldine Norman Publication: The Independant, 17 March 1990 Geraldine Norman welcomes the late-flowering reputation of Eliot Hodgkin, whose paintings of turnips, fruit and wild flowers on bomb sites are masterpieces of the […]

Charlotte Gere – Apollo Magazine – March 1990

Exhibition: Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox – 14 March – 10 April 1990 – Eliot Hodgkin: Painter and Collector Article: Eliot Hodgkin: Painter and Collector by Charlotte Gere Publication: Apollo Magazine, March 1990 It was a measure of the seriousness with which Eliot Hodgkin pursued his career as a painter that his friends mew nothing of it but the […]

Marjorie Bruce-Milne – CSM – 13/12/1966

Exhibition: Agnew & Sons Ltd. 1966 – Eliot Hodgkin Article: by Marjorie Bruce-Milne Publication: Christian Science Monitor Most people would hardly glance twice at the materials which Eliot Hodgkin bases his paintings in tempera or oil. But seen through his eyes, a withered leaf picked up from the gutter, or a group of lemons on […]

Marjorie Bruce-Milne – CSM – 12/12/1963

Exhibition: The Reid Gallery, London 1963 – Eliot Hodgkin 50 Still-life paintings Article: by Marjorie Bruce-Milne Publication: Christian Science Monitor (12/12/1963) Exhibitions of paintings in tempera are comparatively rare; the show of Eliot Hodgkin’s still lifes at the Reid Gallery, 23 Cork Street, London, is such an occasion. The art of tempera painting, which was practiced […]

Dorothy Adlow – CSM – 09/04/1958

Exhibition: Durlacher Bros. New York 1958 – Eliot Hodgkin Article: by Dorothy Adlow Publication: Christian Science Monitor (09/04/1958) Such is the state of present day painting that an exhibition of pictures, like these rosebuds and gourds, seems exceptional. It is unique not for the subject-matter or manner of composition, but for the extraordinary meticulousness in […]

Dorothy Adlow – CSM – 29/03/1958

Exhibition: Durlacher Bros. New York 1958 – Eliot Hodgkin Article: Contemporary Art in New York Galleries by Dorothy Adlow Publication: Christian Science Monitor (29/03/1958) … No more striking contrast to what many of these painters have to say could be found than the still-life water colors by Eliot Hodgkin. His small studies (Durlacher Bros.) are immaculate, meticulous […]

Pierre Jeannerat – Daily Mail – 06/10/1936

Exhibition: Picture Hire – October 1st until 24th 1936 – Eliot Hodgkin Article: British Art Professor’s First Show at 74 by Pierre Jeannerat Publication: Daily Mail, 6 October 1936 … An artist who speaks thus to an art critic is no ordinary dabbler. It was thus that Eliot Hodgkin, aged 32, spoke to me at […]