N, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Bright Colors Each gesture feels like an

Each gesture feels like an unearthed remnant

Hines and Teargarden play in Armstrong's 'All-Stars' band

creating works that are simultaneously accessible and critically significant

including the bold brushwork of Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline

This is the individual T plate: a colour lithograph on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper

N, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Bright Colors Each gesture feels like anDavid Hockney's letter N comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. On a sheet of sky blue paper Hockney fills a ruled box with rows of N's in shifting scripts and weights, then sets one bold white N adrift below with a quick brushed shadow a page of penmanship turned into composition. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and