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This Gloucester Exhibition Looks at David Hockney Through the Eyes of a Friend

The artist himself helped shape "Hockney Reproduction(s)" in the final years of his life, guiding longtime confidant Bing McGilvray, who curated the show.

Those open to venturing a bit off the beaten path for an art experience will be well rewarded by heading up to Gloucester, Massachusetts, for a David Hockney show unlike most others. There are just a few original artworks in the cozy wood-beamed gallery barn of the Manship Artists Residency, but the late artist himself guided the show’s creation, and you’ll see his signature many times over in sign-offs directed toward his longtime friend Bing McGilvray. Throughout “Hockney Reproduction(s),” it also appears on posters, prints and missives, which are presented across two floors alongside seldom-seen fax works, photographic composites, digital drawings and video.

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McGilvray, whose large collection of Hockney ephemera initially inspired “Hockney Reproduction(s),” describes himself as a real “Gloucester character,” which he certainly is today. But in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was an aspiring illustrator, fresh out of art school and sick of Boston. Longing for something different, he drove across the country with a friend, landed in L.A. and loved it. It wasn’t long before he........

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