British artist David Hockney dies at 88 (opens in new tab)

David Hockney, the British artist whose paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools and later landscapes in Yorkshire and Normandy made him one of the most recognizable figures in contemporary art, died peacefully at his London home on June 11, his publicist Erica Bolton said. He was 88, one month short of his 89th birthday. Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in 1937, Hockney studied at Bradford College of Art and the Royal College of Art before emerging in the 1960s pop art movement. He spent muc...